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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The first step is to get your son to acknowledge his responsibility. Sometimes in life, there are things that he has to do before he can do the things he wants to do. The teacher does not know your kid's potential if he can't even complete what he is supposed to complete. Stop letting your kid tell you he is bored and yet he has nothing to show the teacher that he is performing well above everyone else in the class. Your kid ALMOST but didn't quite make it to the magnet program. Magnet testing scores are not the only things factored into why he didn't make it into the program. It's likely the same laziness he is bringing into high school that he brought it over from middle school. A school doesn't teach work habits and organization, those are things he learns from home. We are in an area in which parents get tutors for their kids in 3rd grade and have their children in all kinds of enriching activities. Your kid is competing against others in his grade level. This is not about how smart your little Larlo is. This is about how does Larlo compare to other 10th graders at his school. Where does he stand academically?

Here's what you can do in order to advocate that he really needs more enrichment:

- Have him do extremely well on each assignment
-Get him outside enrichment 
-Get a parent advocate who can look at your kid's data from MAP scores, other data you got from the school. Parent advocates will tell you the truth about your kid or they will see that your kid actually needs advancement and advocate for your kid at educational meetings. 
--Enroll him special programs for high school kids in the area 
- Have him compete nationally in areas that he is passionate about:  for example, robotics, coding, STEM competitions, poetry writing etc.
-Set up an afterschool internship

The school is not the problem OP, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. You must be a parent and take responsibility for actions that you are not taking in his life. [/quote]

OP here: 
Yes, of he needs to do the busywork assigned in English. That is not up for debate.
But all the enrichment in the world outside school won't change that more than half of his classes are way below his ability and moving very slow.
I don't know about you - but sitting for multiple hours a day in classes in which he learns very little sounds like a huge and frustrating waste of time to me too.

If you look at his Honors Chemistry class, he has the same complaints (too slow, boring) and he has a 99% in that class. So this isn't all on him.

And the class he finds appropriately challenging is his AP Calculus AB class, in which he has a high B.

My questions to the board were mostly about what options other parents have found (if any) for more challenging options in 10th grade non-magnet programs. So far the answer seems to be "sorry, not much".[/quote]
Welcome to MCPS [/quote]

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