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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 The first year of HIGH and AIM were great at DC's school. The next year the principal made every IM class AIM. Every one so that became really watered down. It took another year for them to kill HIGH but they basically did by allowing parents to lobby to get their child in so it went from 2 classes to many more and the top students were no longer together and the teachers had to water down the curriculum. What was the point?[/quote]

What was in AIM that's not IM?
I know MIM (Magnet IM) has some bonus things like a few hours of Set Theory.
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It was supposed to mirror the magnet curriculum. I never saw it implemented with fidelity, but the promise to parents when MCPS moved to local norming (good) and eliminated criteria like the at-home essay (good) was that highly able kids would receive a differentiated and accelerated experience in their home schools instead. As PP said, it barely lasted a year and in some schools never even started. [/quote]

AIM and IM are the same class. It's just that AIM is taken in 6th and IM, when it was offered, was taken in 7th. The "Advanced" was just that it was taken a year earlier.[/quote]

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