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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to know what a given school does, ultimately your best source is to contact that school directly.  Presumably your DC is not headed directly to Loiederman this fall or you'd already have their math placement.  You can call and ask to speak to the counselor who is assigned to rising 6th graders in order to find out what they are doing right now and how it works.

The catch is that what is available next year may vary according to everything from student needs to teacher availability.  Anything you learn now will only be possible for next year, not guaranteed.  And that is still likely to be true when school requests are placed in November and when school assignments are posted in the spring.

My DC was placed in something with an acronym in 6th (AMP, maybe?) and is in algebra in 7th.  More than enough for DC and for us.  What was important for us is that DC's 6th grade course contained 6th graders who were willing to work, not 8th graders (for example) who had fallen behind.  For us the social cohort was more important than the mathematical content. [/quote]

Or one might ask here, since the poster who noted Algebra in 6th at Loiederman presumably has exposure to the topic and MCPS, both local-school and central, is rather reticent about it.  Non-Loiederman families have an advocacy interest in the practices employed there, but not at their home school, that better would meet the academic needs of their DCs.

A common understanding of specifics helps with that.  Keeping the information occult facilitates opportunity hoarding.[/quote]

You are exhausting.  This is a low income school that uses the arts to draw students for higher test scores.  It’s hit or miss.  Our year multiple parents pulled out and sent kids to their home school, including us.  [/quote]

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