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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think these high achieving kids should be separated a from the slower students.

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why not?[/quote]

Because by integrating them with regular students, in honors for all we can raise the bar for everyone![/quote]
[b]kids do not become high achieving simply by breathing the same air as high achieving kids.
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Raising the bar is fine, but that's not happening in MCPS.  You don't raise the bar by putting an "honors" designation on it, but not actually teaching more challenging curriculum.[/quote]

Kids model on others as they grow.  Peer cohort matters.  If you have someone more advanced in a class, you have the opportunity to model on them.  If not, you don't.

The flip side is the ease of meeting instructional need among students of similar ability, vs. the difficulty doing so for a highly heterogeneous-ability population.  We shouldn't be starving high-ability students of robust enriched instruction any more than we should be leaving behind those with great difficulty or failing to give individual time to those more or less in the middle.

The solution is, of course, greater personnel allocation (i.e., funding) to highly heterogeneous classrooms/schools.  Taxes, folks.  The societal benefits (increased productivity, lower crime rates, even better health outcomes) greatly outweigh the costs.[/quote]

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