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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ Isn't the existence of this newer group of parents and their demands to be considered educational progress?  It's the nature of forward momentum and change. [/quote]

It is progress, but demographic change means growing pains.  Just ask GOP voices willing to concede as much.

13:37 the workshop method doesn't work well, true, but it's also problematic that there are weak students in the English classes along with a good many who are more than a little advanced.  Without DC-CAS scores to worry about, the wide ability/preparation range would concern me less, but the teachers are under tremendous pressure to bring up the bottom.  Public school classes are too big as it is.  Bring on honors English classes at Deal.  If BASIS and other DC public middle schools start tracking for middle school English, Deal won't be able to resist forever.  We haven't seen a willingness to separate out weak students since the early 1980s, despite several decades of complaints from parents that this is not done, and the arrangement is surely here to stay.

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