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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC told me that a teacher told them that years ago, there was such a thing as on level, and Honors English, and that they were two distinct classes.

But one day, the higher ups saw that the on level classes were made up of mostly URM, and the honors classes weren't.

In the name of social equity and engineering,[b] they got rid of on level classes[/b], pushed the URM to honors, then dumbed down the curriculum. This caused more of the higher achieving kids to take AP English.

So "honors" classes in MCPS are a joke.  It's more like on level, or maybe even below for some kids.

If you want your kid to get any kind of challenge, have them take AP English when they can.[/quote]

If this is the case at all of the high schools, why do they still have both on-level and honors English 9, 10, 11, and 12 courses listed in the bulletin?[/quote]
which schools? [/quote]

The MCPS high school course bulletin.

[url]http://coursebulletin.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/publications/HSCourseBulletin2024.pdf[/url][/quote]

You have to look at each individual HS website for the school course bulletin. This course bulletin you have linked to is just a comprehensive list of "approved" courses that a school could offer. I don't know why MCPS doesn't provide a centralized place to look at which HS's actually offer a course. My cynical view is that it would be too easy for parent's to compare information, organize, and complain.[/quote]

But isn't that the question: since we can see that MCPS has approved on-level English as a course a school could offer, why are apparently none of the schools offering it? And are they being told they cannot offer an MCPS-approved course? On what grounds?[/quote]

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