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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is honestly an enormous weak link, but also an area for parent advocacy.

Up until about 5 years ago, middle schools offered both an advanced English class and a grade level class. The new honors for all system means that there is not only a single curriculum, but kids are not typically cohorted and every class is heterogeneous.

Similarly, HIGH was designed to deliver a magnet level curriculum at home. Schools for kids who strengths lie in analytical thinking, writing, and social studies. However, implementation was left up to individual administrators, which has meant that some schools have cohorted HIGH and some do not.

If I were the parent of a current 3rd through 5th grader, I would be putting my efforts into advocating for appropriate differentiation in English and social studies at the middle school level.[/quote]

Advanced English was never an "honors" class nor was it "advanced". Everyone was in advanced English and then kids below grade level were put in on level English (if your school offered both levels). My kids' MS had both, and there was only one section of on-level per grade. Everyone else was in advanced english.[/quote]

We need to stop calling things that aren't advanced, advanced just to make average kids feel smarter than they are. We have made it such that being regular and on-level is bad, so now MCPS contorts itself to label things as advanced that actually aren't advanced at all.

This hurts kids because it makes them think they're something they're not, and this can be painful when they're faced with that reality at the high school or middle school level when they're finally faced with a class that truly does operate at an advanced level.[/quote]

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