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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS keeps this on the down low for sure.

I do have several kids in MCPS high schools and I don’t love the fact that they don’t get to move as quickly as they might in a “real” Honors class, but they will survive, and[b] I’m glad that MCPS is at least trying something. Because the achievement gap is shameful.
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Anyway, it’s in 11th grade that the split happens- the on level kids stay in Honors Whatever 11 and the others head off to AP classes.

So maybe the mixing in 9th and 10th is good- nobody should be tracked as low achieving/likely not to succeed already at age 14! That’s horrible. Especially if historically the tracking system was racist, or at least perpetuated racism.

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How do you figure that the mixed Honors classes is helping to close the Achievement Gap?  Do you think the Black and Brown kids do better as a result of being in these mixed ability Honors classes?  That certainly was not our experience in MS.  The mixed ability classes really didn’t seem to serve anyone.  [/quote]

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