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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mantra on DCUM that APS teaches to the "lowest common denominator" is bullshit.  The fact is, the APS elementary schools to which DCUM posters send their children are full of advantaged kids with high achieving and striving parents who don't need differentiation.  Just look at the average test scores for these schools.

Every parent on DCUM thinks their child is the Christ Child and that the public schools--working with many, many kids and with limited budgets--owe it to them to take their kids away from the riff raff and provide them personally with a singularly gilded education.  Nope, it doesn't work that way.[/quote]
I know many, many privileged APS kids who get outside tutoring, particularly in math.  It's rampant.  Perhaps if there was differentiation available by APS all students, regardless of their ability to pay for outside tutoring, could have access to more challenging math.

I don't consider teachers offering content above the level of what is needed to pass the SOL to be inequitable.  I also don't think that your child is especially special if they need more than grade-level SOL content to be challenged.  That should be offered broadly as every grade at every school has kids who are capable of doing more challenging math.

By the way, some APS schools already do this. But some have taken the notion that challenging advanced students is inequitable and go out of their way to not offer anything to these students.  That's not okay.

And for the record, APS math scores have been falling year after year.  Test scores are lower than they were before Covid. APS really needs to do some self-reflection on what and how it's teaching. Math by iPad has not been a good addition. And the decrease in differentiation and more advanced content has not helped scores either.[/quote]

Do you have very young kids? The challenge part takes care of itself starting in 6th with the different math tracks. [/quote]
I have older and younger kids.  The real gap is in in grades 3-5, when there's no differentiation.

For math, kids who are prepared for pre-algebra in 6th are those whose parents have paid for outside enrichment or offered it at home.  APS does nothing to help kids get ready.[/quote]

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