Reply to Why do non-magnet HS impede academic achievement?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Why do non-magnet HS impede academic achievement? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do non magnet HS admin steer students away from the highest academic options *that are available at the school* that would give them an opportunity to excel at a level comparable to magnet school?

Why do they routee everyone through the same 0-knowledge prereqs instead of offering placement evaluations so kids have time for more electives or advanced classes?

I'm sure that the county admin do this because they want to solve equity by cutting off the high achievemers of the wrong colors.
But what about school admin?

Don't they have any pride in seeing their students succeed?
 
[/quote]

What do those placement evaluation look like, for how many classes should they exist, and when/where/who should administer them and evaluate?

Sure for math we could create a standard test bank of questions and administer for each course and those that past could move to the next level.  But what about Science where the requirements should not just be rote knowledge but analysis, laboratory skills, research?  What about Computer Science where it understanding of systems and ability to analyze and solve problems?

And now that the school system actually has paths for kids to be able to take college classes what other advancement do you really need them to provide?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics