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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Entry into AP classes at Wilson has nothing to do with teacher recommendations. Anyone is allowed to sign up.
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That is true now because of Wilson’s honors for all. Which is what we are debating the merits of.[/quote]

What? Then why did every teacher we saw at Parent teacher conferences tell us their AP recommendations for my kid and that they were submitting it to the counseling staff. My kid is a junior.

Are you saying that if you are in honors for all you can just sign up for AP classes? I don't believe that is how it works but please tell me the process.[/quote]

As I understand it, honors for all means that in ninth grade at Wilson all the kids now have access to small honors classes. This is what the parents in this thread are up in arms about. The change was instituted because prior to this teachers recommended children for honors testing, and those recommendations were overwhelmingly for white children. Now all students have a chance to access the curriculum. Students who do well in ninth-grade honors can then go on to honors in sophomore year and so on. Many parents on this thread don’t like the change because they don’t want their children in the same classes with the children who had previously been frozen out of honors access. So, freshmen, sophomores and juniors are still accessing AP based on recommendations. It’s only children coming in from middle school who have across-the-board access for one year.[/quote]

All cildren don’t “have access” or “ have a chance to access” to honors classes — all the students are in ‘honors’ classes.  There is no choice.

Parents of high-achieving kids don’t care who their kid is in class with as long as the kids *want* to be there and are prepared for the work.  They just want their children’s time in school to work well for their children — same as all parents.[/quote]

Seems reasonable. So it sounds like people don’t have a problem with “Honors for All.”[/quote]

You want to believe that all kids are equally motivated and academically adept?  Dream on.[/quote]

OK, so parents do have a problem with “Honors for All.” And you feel that without tracking the kids in your child's class won’t be motivated and academically adept. And that their presence will affect your child’s learning, although you don’t actually know whether it will or not. For the sake of argument, let’s assume it does. What other method of getting motivated and academically adept children into honors classes, in this case one that is actually accurate given that the previous method clearly is not, do you think should be used?

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This has all been discussed alteady in this thread.[/quote]

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