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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does honors for all mean in practice?[/quote]

All kids no matter where they are academically are placed in the “honors” classes.  Kids can be 3-4 levels apart, maybe more.

It’s true that it’s honors for none.  The course is dumb down for the lower performing kids and the higher performing kids are bored to death.

Why don’t you ask the Wilson parents whose kids have gone thru 9th grade with it.  To many, it’s a wasted year.  Now 10th grade is honors for all....[/quote]

Math is leveled. Foreign language is leveled. And 73% of Wilson students scored 3/4/5 on PARCC ELA. I'm fine w/honors for all for the introductory high school classes. By 11th most of the 'honors' students will be in virtually all APs anyway. They can also pursue dual-enrollment courses at Georgetown or Catholic University.[/quote]

This is not strictly true. Dual enrollment at Wilson is only an option in 12th grade except maybe you can do a class at UDC CC in 11th. Also, dual enrollment has limited seats and you can only do 1 course a semester through it. Finally it is a real pain to leave school in the middle of the day and head over to GW, Georgetown, Catholic or Howard.

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Then go to an application school. You can't have it all, and you should have known that when decided to live in the city with children. [/quote]

That is not an answer and you know it. [b]Why would you say Wilson should just leave all of its problems unresolved?[/b] Why would you want motivated students to leave the school? How does that help anyone? What you just said is that people who live in DC and want a comprehensive public high school should have low standards and not work toward improvement of our pubic schools. Why would anyone espouse such a position?[/quote]

Because the demographics are changing. Within 3-4 years there be virtually no students below grade level and 'honors for all; will simply reflect the needs of the IB population needs. If your kids are caught in the transition, you can ride it out of make another choice.

Wilson is changing fast and will never go back to being the truly comprehensive, diverse in all ways, school it has been.

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Then it will become the high school for upper Northwest.  In a system of locally-based schools, I'm fine with that.[/quote]

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