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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - my 5th grader was also offered a spot at Loiderman and her home school is Tilden. She’s interested in visual arts. I’m concerned about the academics at Loiderman as well as her making friends. [/quote]

OP here.  I also have a child at Tilden.   I am not too impressed by the academics there.  They follow standard MCPS curriculum. It’s basic.[/quote]

NP. Loiderman also follows standard MCPS curriculum.  By letting incoming magnet 6th graders take higher classes, what they are really doing is putting them in classes with older students. The majority of my daughter's classes had 8th grade students.  While some middle schools may also have a mix of grade levels, our home school for example, would primarily have a class of 6th graders above grade level, with a few 7th graders mixed in.  At Loiderman it was 80% 8th graders (non-magnet), 15% 7th graders, and 5% 6th graders.  There are not enough above grade level 6th graders that can easily fit into one class.  Why does it matter?  Perhaps it doesn't for your kid. My daughter was a very young looking 6th grader.  She was treated poorly by older students, based on her size and being new. Teachers did nothing to help, and acknowledge that's it's a rough group. I volunteered and I was shocked to see how some kids treat teachers and parents.  I'm not naive or easily surprised.

We pulled her and went back to our home school (which I'm not going to name, since DCUM loves to hate on our cluster).  Middle school is hard, and Loiderman made it harder.

FWIW, we are mixed family, so this isn't about race or ethnicity.[/quote]

Its only math they allow accelerated in less they changed it and when we did it, the bulk of the class was the same grade.  It's pretty common in all schools that the kids are disrespectful.  Its a parenting issue, though teachers should correct it.[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but they are describing a real challenge. In most schools, there are enough kids in accelerated math to make more-or-less single grade classes. Not always, and not if a kid has a unique elective, but in general. But at a school that is bimodal like LMS, you do end up with 6th graders in class with 7th and 8th graders for math sometimes. The good news is, though, that those same kids are mostly with their high performing peers for 7th and 8th grade math. [/quote]

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