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My DC takes  "Honors" World History and English, and the Principal and teachers told the incoming parents of HGC students that these kids would be challenged.  There is nothing "honors" about it.  So, I have very little confidence about the one or two classes with more advanced curriculum.

And MCPS is a public school that should be providing the same access to all high achieving students.  You can say it didn't use to, but it's not doing that today either.[/quote]

Unfortunately this is very hard to achieve.  Public school "should" be all things to all different types of students.  Alas it is not.  We have a child with an IEP and I can tell you we are fighting for access as well.  If you want a perfectly tailored education -- home school.  [/quote]
I see, so demanding that MCPS treat students equally is too much. You can fight for your child's IEP, but other parents should shut up about fighting for their high achieving kid to get access to accelerated curriculum?  I'm not looking for a perfect tailored education for my child alone.  I want MCPS to treat my child and other children equally  in terms of access to accelerated curriculum.  Is that really asking for too much from a public school, equal access?[/quote]

You have been given an amazing, golden opportunity and you are acting super surly about it! Your high achieving child is getting to go to her own middle  school with a large cohort of highly able peers. And the county has opened the door to pilot an enriched magnet curriculum at your school as well. You can spend your time complaining or you can set to work making that middle school an amazing place. There is now nothing stopping you. With a large cohort of bright kids, you are sure to have an organic emergence of all kinds of great EC activities. You and the other parents should push the principal hard to assure that the program will be strengthened with appropriate teacher training and resources. Combine strength with the other parents to demand that those honors courses are rigorous and give the teachers feedback if you feel the curriculum is less than savory. The county is changing the ENTIRE ES and MS curriculum over the next few years, so use that flux to get the kind of curriculum you want to see. Within the next couple of years you are going to have a truly incredible middle school smack in your community. Please take a moment to imagine the plight of able kids who do NOT have a highly able cohort or who have a cohort but who must wait for the enriched curriculum to come their way. Asking for everything, for you, right away, at the cost of others, is in fact asking too much. The rest of us are grasping at the crumbs of your feast, so please stop complaining that the wine isn’t right.[/quote]

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