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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Opening varsity practices to all ends up lowering the intensity of the endeavor. You get that, right?[/quote]

You don’t seem to understand how this works. If a non identified kid is excited about and doing well in a fractions unit, it isn’t “lowering the intensity of the endeavor” to allow him to do the extension work that the identified kids are required to do.[/quote]
The thing is that they're not offering it as a separate extension where kids choose to participate or not.  They offer these activities to all students so it needs to be accessible to all students.  The activities are being offered as whole class activities and have been made easier so all students can do them successfully.

This is leaving the students who used to get extensions with nothing to do when they finish grade level work.[/quote]

That’s not universal. Some schools take a subset of kids who are interested in a particular topic and they get an extra project/reading.

Others have an endless supply of extensions, some for depth and some goes beyond current course. 
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That's not the model being put forward by APS central administration.[/quote]

They are available to all kids who show interest, not just those tagged as gifted. This is in addition to a healthy supply of extension activities.

When your kids are older you’ll find that there is a lot more differentiation in MS+. ES has never had a ton. Which is fine for most parents in APS. Parents who want that tend to head to FCPS.

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I have a kid in middle school.  She's taking all the hardest options and her lowest score in any class is a 96% this quarter.  She never does homework.  I'm not impressed by the differentiation.

She was also getting APS gifted services before COVID and they were much improved over what is offered now.  (Still not a lot, but more.). APS has really backed off the individual extension activities in favor of whole class activities.  My kids are spending too much time reading silently and not enough time doing school work.

I've explained a few times.  Extension activities are being taught to the class at the end of the unit in the new APS AAC model that was rolled out lar year. Kids are not being given individual extension activities, because the AACs have been told to focus on whole class activities that all can do, so kids are being told to read silently or do Lexia or Dreambox after they finish their work.  This isn't okay.[/quote]

Which middle school is using DreamBox for Pre-Algebra? 
[/quote]I have more than one kid.  Dreambox is elementary.[/quote]
It’s IXL in middle school[/quote]

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