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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS does have intensified classes in middle school now, so there is some differentiation.  My 7th grader is in Intensified English.  The teacher said they read materials at a higher lexile level, do more analysis and write more than in the non-intensified class.  So far, in Q1, they did a short story unit and are now reading The Outsiders as a class.  That's the only whole class novel of the year, but they get to pick other books from a selection.  So yes they do read books and your kid can choose more challenging options, if that's their preference.

APS has emphasized writing and analysis in all intensified classes, so there should also be more writing in classes like history/civics and science, than in the non-intensified versions.  In 6th grade Intensified History, for instance, my kid had to write a fictional narrative from the first person perspective of an immigrant and do research to support the details in their account.[/quote]

Intensified classes in MS are a joke. I think the average APS parent has a low IQ and/or is delusional in their glowing praise of the schools. Kids should be reading a book every month or two at the very least and doing group discussions and writing critical analysis papers on them. The fact that kids are allowed to submit alternative assignments in almost every social science class (at least in our experience) is appalling. I'm talking about drawings, powerpoints, fake instagram pages, posters, etc., in lieu of writing a paper that already requires a paucity of words to begin with. And imagine getting a lower score for attempting to write a paper instead of having submitted some cut and paste bullet points. Many high school classes seem to be exactly the same. On a side not: in every case where a parent has some advanced degree or went to some name brand college and their normal kid does poorly on the SAT, I squarely place the blame on the parents every time because you let this happen. [/quote]

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