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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The same curriculum doesn’t mean it’s the same experience, depth or discussion as those are greatly affected by the students in the class.[/quote]

The students in the Honors classes at the base middle school are grouped together in classes and given Local Level IV instruction. It's the same kids who would be eligible to attend the AAP Center middle school.[/quote]

Yes, but often (not always) the kids who choose to go to the Center are the smarter kids within AAP. I have had a kid go through a Center MS and a kid currently a year and a half into a Local Level IV MS. In our experience, with these two schools, the education was much better at the Center. And not just because of the kids in the class (though many of the smartest kids from my second child's ES Center did go to the MS Center). My older one had one to three hours of homework most nights, lots of thoughtful long term projects, lots of tests, final exams in HS level classes, etc. My second basically never has homework, gets straight As without ever studying, no projects, tests are rare, I could go on. This may be particular to our choice of middle schools, but the Center was much better in our experience. I worry my second is not at all prepared for high school. [/quote]

I would be this varies center to center. FCPS schools as a whole are almost entirely determined in quality by the expectations of the administrative team. Have a good set of principals? Your kid is set. Have a bad group? Sorry.[/quote]

This has been my experience as well. Three elementary schools within two miles of each other and they are wildly different due to the administration.[/quote]

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