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[quote=Anonymous]MCPS is moving back toward  mixing all levels of kids in the same class and no longer will "regroup" for math and reading.  Each class will have "levels' within the classroom.  This may work depending on the school and the kids overall in that school in terms of their academic levels.  If you have kids that require a lot of intensive work and are below level, then that does not leave enough time for the higher level kids (in my opinion).  It is an extreme amount of work for the teachers who are already working to their max (at least in my experience).  Also in my experience, one of my kids was assigned to "helping" with some of the kids who needed further academic assistance.
  While this can be gratifying and useful for both the learner and student assisting, once the student gets to 4th / 5th grade, it is important to evaluate individually what type of setting that GT student needs.  Some kids will do fine , others need that stimulation and challenge in order to remain interested in learning in  the school system.
 The Highly Gifted Centers 4th/5th grade) are placed in high need schools and usually where the kids as a whole need a lot more academic assistance.  There are not enough HGC,s and the school we were in did not make our kids comfortable within the setting of the school as a whole.  That said, the individual classroom and the differences in how the MCPS curriculum was implemented was extremely beneficial to our kids.
  MCPS is moving away from providing instruction for academically advanced kids in my opinion.  In middle school, they no longer have honors course, and consider "advanced" courses "honor" at this time.  This does  not work for all students.  
  And back to the RAVEN....  still trying to figure it out :)
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