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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honors.  It is self-selected meaning children who actually want to learn will be in the class.  Less discipline issues and less bullying, and a better peer group.  Thr majority kids of these kids will want to do well.  Better to get a C in an honors class and actually learn something, than be in a class with low expectations and feel frustation due to classmates' behavior and fitting in.

Regarding the "all students are in honors," mantra, for some schools they require honors for one or two subjects. Even if those classes are not difficult, the other honors classes will be challenging and the "mixed" honors classes will let your child be exposed to a wider range of students.[/quote]

"Even if those classes are not difficult...?" So the schools could just do the everyone-does-honors subjects as--what? Promotion for the school, even if the classes themselves aren't really worth the honors label? And parents should just take heart that the other "real" honors classes, the ones where kids actually choose to be there, will make up for any slack classes that are just labeled honors to make the school look good? That's what you're saying here: Accept the everyone-is-honors classes for what they are and be glad the other ones will be challenging. Wow. That lets the school get away with using an honors label just so it looks good to outsiders and can crow about its all-honors student body.

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I am a parent, not the principal.  So, as a parent, who has no control over who is in honors, I am simply providing the OP with some info.  This post was about if she should enroll in all honors or regular classes,  My intention was to say enroll in all honors, so that your ciild will be challenged somewhere.[/quote]

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