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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i saw this topic here before, but I would like to start a new --- for parents who might be in the similar situation as I was in.

First of all, my 5th grader is an average student all along since she started her school.  In fact, she was so quiet and shy that she hardly talked to other kids and hardly answer questions when she was at K/1st grade.   So she was indeed put an IEP (as developmental delay), that was removed at 2nd half year of her 1st grade.   So we never expected her doing well at school and her report cards mostly Ps and and some Is.   At her 4th grade, we knew she was on grade level of math while some of her classmates were in compact/enrich.

When she started her 5th grade last fall, she was placed in on grade level math while some of her classmates who were previously with her at 4th grade math moved to compact math (5/6), the school basically divided all 5th graders into two groups (almost equally in numbers),  half in compact 5/6) and half on grade level (5).    She was obviously upset when she was told her placement.   Kids at school do compare each other --- and she knew that some of her classmates were not any better/advanced than she was but they had got into compact (5/6).

We did not know any other information on how the school decided placements except the fact we did receive MSA result which shows our 5th grader got 493 in math and (433 - 650) was labeled as advanced level (also it indicates that 41% of her grade kids were in the advanced level).

We decided to appeal the decision of her placement to the school, and the school took our request seriously.  After two weeks observation with updated information, they moved her to compact (5/6).   She was very happy and encouraged.

During the 1st quarter conference, I was told the she was doing well in her compact math, her test result showed that she was in the median of the compact class, that seemed to be consistent with her MSA test result.

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By chance are you in Beverly Farms Elementary?   The thing is that kids were not supposed to be moved into compact math in 5th grade because the kids end up missing 1/2 of 5th grade math.  Because in 4th grade kids learn 4th and 1/2 of fifth.  Then in 5th grade they learn 1/2 of Fifth and all of 6th.  By going from regular to compact, your child missed a lot of concepts that were taught to the others in 4th grade.

In Beverly Farms that was what happened.  I feel bad for those kids that missed out and they didn't even tell the parents what topics were missed so that the kids could have learned it during the summer.  [/quote]

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