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Full time services aren't much to write home about these days. Everyone gets the same Benchmark and [b]math is extensions instead of acceleration[/b]. [/quote]

This was briefly reported on but never generated a lot of buzz. People kept arguing that it was acceleration still. Do you have a current 3rd grader to verify?[/quote]

I'll confirm this for you anecdotally. My 3rd grader was supposed to get advanced math this year as a Level II, but she didn't even get pullouts to the Level IV classroom, just extra worksheets. When I asked why this was, her teachers told me that the Level IV classroom was not accelerating math this year, and that my kid would get differentiated instruction in her classroom for advanced math (ie, extra worksheets and literally nothing else, total waste of time).

She got in to Level IV for next year and when I asked the AART if she would be behind in math given that she was not granted access to the accelerated math curriculum, the AART reiterated that the Level IV classroom did not accelerate for math this year. She claimed that they would accelerate starting next year, and that my kid would be totally on track coming in next fall. When I asked if moving to the center school would get her onto the regular accelerated math program, the AART told me that the center is on the same pace as the local Level IV classroom for math.

Now, our AART has been very unhelpful and uninformative to me, so I would love some kind of verification that she's giving me the full picture. But I think the reality is that I'm being paranoid and dumb, and that they really didn't accelerate math in our Level IV classroom this year.  [/quote]

What you wrote would track with the change in standards on the website and with what a (it is an anonymous online forum, so purported) 7th grade AAP teacher said on here. Everyone was saying it was E3 rolling out county-wide and that E3 still does accelerate later so kids are on track to take the grade 7 SOL in 6th.

But man it seems tough for those kids who were ready to finally not be bored in math![/quote]

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