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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends what you mean by selective.  If your child is working at grade level or above, and this can be documented/demonstrated, they get into a particular honors class. If they aren't working at or above grade level in a particular subject, they don't.

That's selective enough for me, given that almost all the other DCPS middle schools (including [b]Deal and Hardy) l[/b]ump kids who lack basic skills in with kids working at or above grade level, other than for math instruction.  We supplement with academic summer programs and tutoring to add rigor, which is a whole lot cheaper than paying for private school.

The fact that Stuart Hobson's student body is 75% OOB/low SES isn't a problem with half a dozen honors classes on offer, in a huge deal for us.  We wouldn't have touched the school without the honors classes, presumably like most of the other middle-class families who enroll their children.

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Hardy has had honors classes for subjects other than math for several years. Deal has it for foreign language and math.[/quote]

That's nice. Deal admins have long insisted on shoving OOB kids who read, write and speak at an elementary school level into English, social studies and science classes with 8th grade students who work at a high school level.

We hire an English lit tutor with two other in-boundary families.

End feeder rights already and/or create a full menu of remedial classes at Deal that aren't for English Language Learners.  Admins, parents and pols really need to stop pretending that the current arrangement is working well. Honors for all at Wilson emanates from Honors for All at Deal, other than for math and foreign language. [/quote]

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