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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of bright kids who are very sporty. Just an FYI, you can be both!

I think it's great that they group kids by ability. Why shouldn't they put kids with their academic peers? When they spread them out too much it a) puts a strain on the teachers who have to plan for numerous but smaller groups, b) holds back the smarter kids from achieving their potential and c) holds back the kids who need the most attention because the teachers are spread to thin.

Your child will make friends this year, relax.[/quote]

I'm not stressed out, so no need to relax. Merely asked a simple question, pp.

I have five kids, so this isn't my first rodeo. I'm not worried about my son making friends.

It's just odd that he's landed in a class with kids we've never encountered over the years--and they are the bookworm type (they don't play sports---we asked, "so what sports are you playing this fall?" Crickets.). To be clear, I'm not knocking them. Rather, I'm wondering why out of a class of 25 we've never encountered any of these kids before--and only two are new to the school.

This is precisely why I posted...because I'm wondering if these kids have been somehow tracked and moved along together. I didn't think mcps did that. But it's odd that we don't know any of these kids or their families, yet we know pretty much all of the other kids/families in the other classrooms (because they've clearly been mixed throughout the years).

It's just weird. [/quote]

it seems like they don't group a whole class. But I do feel like they group clusters a little bit. At my kids' school, it was the case that most of the [b]kids that got into the HGC for fourth grade were mostly (but not all) in the same 3rd grade class[/b]. I don't know how often that was true, but was true for my two kids.[/quote]
No so in our case. Kids were spread out over 3 classes.  But, I do think they do spread out abilities between classes so that it's a bit more even.  I think this also works well for kids with behavioral issues.  It is unfair to the teacher and the whole class to have one class with all the kids with issues.[/quote]

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