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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will it say honors on the transcript?[/quote]

Who cares what is on the transcript? What matters is what kind of education is happening in the classroom.[/quote]

And an education geared to the weakest students sucks for the rest.

Which is what Wilson has decided to do.[/quote]

Cynical, I know, but is it possible Wilson is doing this in hopes that some of the higher SES families will go private, thus helping solve the overcrowding problem without having to take measures like adjusting boundaries?[/quote]

As someone who has been part of these conversations at Wilson, I can tell you this is absolutely not the case. The objective of the honors initiative is to encourage and set high expectations for all students from the beginning of their high school experience. The instructional approach is not to teach to the bottom. As a long-time DCPS parent, I share PP's general general reaction of cynicism to many things. But there is no malicious or suspicious intent with this initiative. Whether it will be successful remains to be seen, of course.[/quote]

Then why get rid of honors classes?

It is not possible to simultaneously challenge advanced and severly lagging kids in one classroom. [/quote]

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