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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't many Mann and Key students go to private after 4th grade? If so, 50% of the 5th-grade class really isn't the relevant number. You should be looking at % of the 3rd and 4th grade classes. [/quote]

Mann's fifth-grade class last year was 19 students. This year: 42 students. 100% of third- and fourth-graders returned. Next year's fifth-grade class is supposed to be 55 kids. [/quote]

One of the ex-mann parents at our private said a lot of the 3rd/4th attrition at Mann was because of the trailers, now gone.

Our younger DC is in 4th and we are watching Hardy, but applying to Latin this year. A former Mann now Hardy parent confided they have to constantly push the Hardy administration to follow through on all honors and other advanced offerings that were promised, and that what is labeled honors looks like grade level work to them.[/quote]

The person who gave you the information is either not a well-informed parent, or does not have an advanced kid in math. Starting from January, a sub-set of honors students who did well in the first quarter,  plus some students from the "standard classes" who showed talent and drive to learn in math,  will be transferred to a separate class and accelerated to pre-algebra (7th grade-level curriculum) . Those who do well in this class are then enrolled into 8th grade algebra (in their 7th grade) and can then move on to geometry in 8th grade (high school curriculum).

True. 6th grade pre-algebra is taught by Ms Bax starting from mid-January. She is the Hardy math department coordinator (a star teacher). She personally makes sure that  kids admitted to acceleration are motivated and academically ready for the challenge. She also coordinates with the 6th grade teacher, Mr Wheat, in order to identify and include into 6th pre-algebra those kids from weaker elementary school who did not make it to honors at the beginning of the year, but who nonetheless showed talent and stamina for math during the first quarter. She is unwilling to compromise with parents who want their children to be admitted to the accelerated curriculum when they are in fact not ready for that. This created some frictions last year with some feeder school parents who gave for granted that their kid was a math genius and confronted the school when they realized that their kid had not been included in the accelerated path. I expect more of this this year, as the feeder school group has increased and several of those families feel entitled to honors and acceleration regardless of their kid's level and stamina.

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