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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prepare your child to have no friends for the first couple of months of school. The kids are very cliquey with their elementary school friends. Also if your child is in a higher reading and math group, [b]she/he will have to wait 3 weeks[/b] before they track by ability. [b]Depending on your child, this might be upsetting[/b] to be in with the slower kids.

Try to get your child into Rise summer camp so they won’t be as overwhelmed by the size.[/quote]

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The school is focused on teaching kids a growth mindset. I think the kids can learn to handle this truly minor "inconvenience" with grace.[/quote]

You can roll your eyes all you want and feed me the latest academic buzzwords, you clearly are coming from a DCPS feeder. Other schools differentiate earlier. If a student is coming from a school that has had differentiation for a couple of years and is placed in a math class with a student who isn't strong in math, for example struggles with 0 x 2, it will be a shock. If said student is placed in a class were another student scores a 350 on a reading inventory when DC scores 1400, it will be a shock. I say this because it has been a shock for my child. I had to convince DC to hang in until they tracked students. This may not apply to you but it might to others.[/quote]

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If the student is coming from a HRCS- I am assuming not a school that feeds DCI.   The rest of the HRCS have a big spread of PARCC performance - the child would be used to having kids in the classroom who are scoring 1s and 2s.   [/quote]

DCI feeders also have large spreads. So does Deal. What are you talking about?[/quote]

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