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Yep. It's a completely different ballgame at the elem and middle school level. HS kids can make DL work. It sucks but they're making it work and are less likely to leave. My senior is sticking it out although this year has been a total waste. Moved our elem kid to private in the fall. His 5th grade class lost 10 kids this year.[quote][/quote]

Moreover, in high school you have honors, AP, and other differentiated classes. While in elementary and middle school they lump all skill levels in same class, so your bright kid is stuck re-doing all the material that fell fallow because of virtual school etc. basically, a 7th grader can expect to be learning 6th grade material in APS for the next couple of years.[/quote]

I really wonder (and hope) that perhaps COVID impacts will force APS into some form of differentiation in elementary/middle so that they can actually address disparities between kids, particularly since the differences age and readiness are going to be extreme for the next several years across the board in terms of who's held back, who got tutoring, who was left with minimal instruction.

- NP with a rising K who will be attending private because of lack of trust in APS' COVID response. [/quote]
Aps does have differentiation in upper elementary and middle school.  In fourth and fifth grades they usually have a home room and then different teachers for math and possibly language arts.  In middle school, they have an intensified math track.  [/quote]

Not to be rude, but this is not differentiation.  The kids in upper elementary who have different teachers for different subjects move as a block.  If they are a strong reader or identified as “gifted” in any area, they are in the same class doing the same work with all of the other kids.  Some kids who are really struggling to read get some addition focused interventions.  And the intensified math track is for a tiny fraction of kids.  This doesn’t bother me much about APS so far (I’ve had at least 1 “gifted” kid in APS for 9 years so far) but many parents want the work to challenge their gifted kids.  I’m more concerned about  how shockingly little APS gets away with doing for kids who are not doing well—barely reading at grade level, etc.  Especially now.  They settled one huge lawsuit in 2020 and I’m guessing there’s another coming their way.  [/quote]

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