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Just stop.  I think the HFA is admirable but lets not deceive ourselves that it is as rigorous as an honors class when non-honors is also offered.  My dc transferred into Wilson from a private this year where she took honors classes.  I asked her opinion, based on her[b] actual experience[/b], on the rigor of the honors class at her private compared to Wilson.  She said [b]the private was more rigorous[/b] and the teachers made a point of saying they were doing x,y,z because it was an honors class and would be taught as such.  The students were expected to keep up and were only in the class because a determination was made they could do the work at that level.

Again, what Wilson is attempting is admirable but to think they are meeting all students academic needs with this model is ridiculous.  [/quote]

What your daughter's experience shows is that private school honors classes are more rigorous than Wilson honors classes.  Not a big shock.  What it doesn't show is what we're actually discussing --- the difference, if any, between an honors class at Wilson pre-HFA and the same class now under HFA.

The Wilson honors curriculum is the same.  The Wilson honors class syllabus is the same.  Posters with experience of the process AT WILSON are telling you that teachers are going out of their way to make the classes the same.  Because your daughter took some other honors class at some other school at some point in time, you believe you know better than people with experience of what's happening AT WILSON.  That's not convincing to me, but go for it.[/quote]

Disagree.  The honors classes at her school are more rigorous because there are hard expectations and standards of what the class will cover and the students who were there could do the work.  So let’s just read in between the lines of this poster and say it for what it is.  Wilson is eliminating regular classes which is the lowest level and putting everyone who are not in the AP classes into this HFA classes.  Admin is asserting the curriculum and content will be the same rigor.  I call that BS.  The teachers will attempt it but won’t work with throwing kids who should be in the regular class into the honors class.  Because we know DCPS won’t fail those kids who can’t keep up.  So there will be grade inflation or the rigor of the course won’t be taught at the level it should.  This is how it’s going to play out.[/quote]

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