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[quote=Anonymous]They can choose band/chorus/orchestra, or a handful of other electives (art, latin, spanish, home ec, etc).  There's also a "wheel" that people can take where they spend one or two months with each elective.

I think you can only have intensified math in 6th grade.  There are intensified classes for 7th and 8th, but my feeling from my older kids is that they aren't really that different from the regular class.  Its self selecting, so I think it may be a better class in that respect (less distracted student body).  Math placement is determined by APS, but I think you can argue to get into whichever class you want.  When you get to highschool, math is self selecting too.

Very few 6th graders make the school teams that have tryouts (basketball and soccer especially).  The coaches are the gym teachers, its a good experience I think socially, but you aren't going to get better and the teams aren't particularly good at hamm.  A couple of people I know were annoyed because the gym teachers just pick kids who look like they would be good at a sport, not necessarily kids who are good at the sport.  For example, a kid who plays on the ecnl team for travel soccer didn't make the team, but someone who only plays rec did. Maybe sour grapes, not sure, but either way the coaching isn't amazing, so it may not be worth it if your kid is extremely serious (wants to play in college).   My kids did the non-cut sports (swimming, track) and they had great experiences.  Practice is typically 2-3 times a week for an hour afterschool.  I think most of the teams are just one team, other than possibly soccer.

PE is a full year course, where a day or two a week they have health.  Or maybe it is health for a few weeks, and then PE a few weeks.  They don't change clothes for PE.  You need to wear closed toe shoes (its a lot like elementary school). [/quote]

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