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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is a self contained classroom? Asking as an upcoming Brent in-bounds family. [/quote]

My understanding is that it’s a special ed classroom for kids who can’t be in a mainstream classroom. I’ve never seen it used in the gifted context like PP does above.

But agree with the PP’s premise. More than 1/3 of last year’s Brent 4th got 5s on the math cape. [b]You can’t expect all those parents to be totally fine with their kids being kids being thrown into classes where 90% of the kids are not at grade level. [/b]The school would need to lead with differentiation to attract many Brent families. [/quote]

Yes - it would be criminal to do that, but plenty of equity advocates would love to see it.[/quote]

That’s not how it works though. Math at Jefferson is expressly tracked. And those in the higher track are placed in the same homeroom together, which essentially means that there is some level of tracking for all classes that are part of the homeroom.

Or at least that’s how it was for my kid, who finished at Jefferson a couple years ago.

- Signed, not an “equity advocate” (whatever that means)

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