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[quote=Anonymous]One thing is the difference once the public schools split the kids more.  For our FCPS elementary school, they keep all levels together through 2nd grade, except they will pull kids out for a bit of differentiated instruction at the subject level, mainly for math.

In 3rd grade, there is fulltime AAP.  The kids in the AAP classes are not that smart, but this weeds out the kids with bad-behavior and  learning disabilities. It also shifts the gender dynamic to be more female - our 6th grader currently has 18 girls and 8 boys in his class, including him.  While the curriculum doesn't get that much harder, the teachers will grade everything from that point, in our experience.

So #2 and #3 in your post change immediately at 3rd grade, at least in FCPS.

#1 and #4 depend on the class / teacher, but our experience mostly matches what you describe, all the way to high school.

Even the AP Calculus courses have a lot of worksheets!  I think this is because the district has tried to shift teachers away from textbooks, but many teachers believe that tactile learning is better for students than always doing everything on your laptop.  So they make a lot of copies of worksheets.[/quote]

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