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My kids are frustrated that there are kids in their 6th grade English class who can't read and the retests are papering it over. They just hope those kids don't pick intensified English next year.[/quote]

Why are they worried about what other kids are doing? 
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Not PP, but here's why.  APS is committed to getting more traditionally under-represented kids into the Intensified classes and having them succeed.  If too many unprepared kids end up in the intensified classes and then strubble, the teachers will end up having to lower their teaching standards and intensified will essentially end up being no more challenging than the standard class.  I have two middle schoolers and this is especially an issue for my rising eighth grader who is sick of having classes disrupted by kids who clearly don't want to be there and don't care about learning.  He is hoping intensified will be a bit more [google]self-selecting[b] and will be comprised of students who are there because they actually want to learn and are ready to learn at a more challenging level.[/quote]

So no need for gate keeping. [/quote]

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