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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our elementary school, every effort is made to ensure that each classroom has a wide range of ability levels. Students are not grouped by ability. Do the middle schools operate differently? Because if the middle schools also don’t group cohorts of high achieving students together when scheduling classes, what difference does it make in a student’s life that other high achievers attend their middle school? [/quote]

There are now two classes for advanced learners in the home middle schools (compared to three classes in the magnet programs).

Also, at my kid's middle school (which also hosts a magnet program), they do group the students by ability in the general program.[/quote]

I have heard great things about the new world studies class at our home MS from parents of 6th graders.  However, saying there are 2 new advanced classes versus 3 in the magnet I think makes it seem that the new classes are more like the magent than they are.  A lot of it depends on teacher implementation, and the magnets attract teachers passionate about those subjects.  Also, the SMAC magnet has 3 math/science/cs magnet classes, and humanities has 3 humanities classes, whereas the 2 new advanced classes being offered in other middle schools are 1 humanities class and 1 math class.  So on the good side, you have access to a magnet-style math class and a magnet-style humanities class, rather than one or the other.  But on the bad side, the two advanced classes are not integrated and interrelated in the way that the 3 magent classes are in the magnet program.  It also remains somewhat to be seen if the MSs that house the magnet programs will offer the "other" advanced class such that SMAC magnet students also get to take the magnet-style world studies class and vice versa.  
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