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[quote=Anonymous]I am currently an educator in ACPS and here is the truth: there are some amazing teachers and there are some really bad ones....and you will find this to be true every where you go whether it be private or public schools and anywhere in the country.

There are a few things that I would like to contest in some of the previous poster's comments.  First is the idea that students have accountability. As a teacher in the district, I HAVE to accept all late work for any reason and on top of that, students who don't do the assignments at all automatically get a 40% - this is a district policy that I can't even override in the electronic grade book. As another poster noted, in middle school there are no barriers to honors classes - if your parent knows to ask for them - so two problems have arisen, one is that differentiation is incredibly difficult for example, when a couple of students read at the first grade level (but are in middle school) a couple are gifted, and the rest of the students are really more of what would be found in a mainstream regular classroom. The other issue is that the non-honors classrooms now devoid of the regular mainstream students, are now left with SPED, ELL, and unfortunately behavior issues and those that need the extra attention are getting less of it. If anything, all the students would be better off in completely heterogeneous classrooms.[/quote]

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