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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to hear what deranged level of course offerings should be offered at every school.[/quote]

How about offering the same exact classes at all schools.  You are ok with this because your kids have access.  You bash other parents whose kids don’t have access why?   You are the problem.  [/quote]

I think your child’s needs should be met, but I don’t think you are being realistic or reasonable in thinking you can buy a home in an under resourced school pyramid and expect that your outlier child, who is not a family on FARMS or an EML student, should get bespoke treatment/allocation of school resources when the majority of your school needs different classes and remediation. I think mcps should provide you transportation to mc or to a nearby high school so you can access those classes they can’t provide at yours. I don’t think your under resourced over crowded school should have to cater to a very small subset. [/quote]

I think that's a mis-reading of the student population at these high FARMS schools. It's not like 90% are below grade level. There's a substantial cohort of able learners, and they should be able to have their needs met at their home school.

Honestly, this is perhaps a topic for another thread, but the simplest way to do that IMO is less about super-advanced AP or post-AP classes, but to go back to cohorted Grade 9-10 English and Social Studies classes so that teachers aren't scrambling trying to teach to such a wide range of abilities in one classroom, an approach that I don't think helps students at any level. [/quote]

The problem is that historically Black students have not been placed in the correct cohorts. Predominantly White teachers do not recognize when Black students are academically advanced.[/quote]

Then it could be based on test scores OR all students could be given the opportunity to opt into the advanced course.[/quote]

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