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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is very misleading to compare a selective private high school like Holton Arms to a public HS in MCPS.  Of course you will get smaller class sizes and more individualized attention.  I would however hesitate to draw the conclusion that all private high schools are better than MCPS high schools.  There are lots of private high schools that are not as difficult to get into where you get a broader range of students with different abilities.  I believe that is what a previous poster who described their child's experience in a magnet middle school was getting at.  If you have a group of kids who are all at roughly the same level it is indeed possible to provide a rigorous and enriched curriculum even with 25 or more students.  There have been numerous cross-country studies that have demonstrated that class size does not matter so much if the students are at the same level especially in the higher grades.  
[b]If you want your child to have the kind of experience magnet kids have perhaps you should advocate for more ability grouping in schools especially in 4-8 grades.  Just imagine how much their teachers could do if they were teaching an entire class of children who are all on more or less the same level.  [/quote][/b]

You mean what MCPS did with ES Math prior to 2.0.   [b]The kids would move to ability based math classes with a different teacher in the afternoon.[/b]  It was great but they got rid of it and started more busy work with 10min small group lessons in their same homeroom class. Do you honestly think MCPS will bring back the old way and say they were wrong?  Ability based grouping will never happen in MCPS because the majority of the AA and Latino kids are in the lower abilities and the Whites and Asians are in the higher.  It is not PC to show how apparent that is.  It would start a racial divide on the "white/asians getting a better education" even though the lower classes need smaller sizes/direct help.  [/quote]

Our elementary school still has the system described above for 3rd - 5th.  Yes, the differentiation is in class in K-2, but our experience is that that the reading differentiation has been pretty good. The math a little less so.  [/quote]

My now 6th grader had ability based math groups in upper ES as well...and news flash to the poster writing about race...my son was in the highest performing math ability group and his group mates were a diverse group of children.[/quote]

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