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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh come on, you folks are puzzled by how parents have started to complain that there isn't tracking outside math?  MoCo is tightening up access to above grade level math instruction in both ES (via Curriculum 2.0) and MS.   They're over-correcting for a long-standing problem, widespread over-acceleration.   What would I do for over-acceleration as my kid's problem.  Parental push-back has been strong in MoCo so balance will surely return shortly.

If your kid excels at English or science, why do you want him/her in class with kids who struggle with basic skills (be they IB or OOB kids)?  Deal doesn't do advanced courses outside math because most of the kids in them would be AA or Latino, not because DCPS is following sound logic in sticking with in-class differentiation beyond ES.   They come under fire for having so many Asian and white kids in 7th grade algebra.  My kid hasn't been remotely challenged by English, or challenged much in science, in 6th grade.  He would have been a good candidate for 6th grade algebra (which I hear BASIS is teaching).  We're on the fence about staying.

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The fact that your child may not be challenged in English may be because they are using that awful workshop method rather than the composition of the kids in the class.  I have a kid at Deal that does struggle in English due to ADHD, but is not this year and my sense is that the workshop methodology is supposed to make them like to read and write, but really dumbs down the content.  This is the one place I am not really happy at Deal and I have communicated this directly to the school. Personally I think it may be worth communicating on something the school can change than what they cannot i.e. the kids that attend the school. [/quote]

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