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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]

Please identify yourself.  You are very invested in selling your narrative that I think you must be an insider.  If so, why not say who you are to give credence to what you are saying?  Otherwise, you just have an opinion like everyone else commenting here.

Shame, but I am certain you won't do so.  [/quote]

I'm the parent of a Wilson junior.  I'm involved with sports stuff but not much with academic stuff (beyond going to parent meetings, back to school night and conferences).   In addition to what you quoted, I also posted the FAQ.

I have zero knowledge based on being an "insider" (SMH).  I read the FAQ, I read the school newsletters (which are terribly written and kind of looney), and that's where I get my information --- all public sources equally available to everyone on DCUM.

I have grave doubts about HFA (I posted about my kid being distracted in an AP class this year because all but a few kids are not engaged and about a kid I know having to leave Wilson due to failing honors biology).

I posted what you quoted above because I think it's silly for parents to invent crises ("the content is being dumbed down, oh the horror!") without spending ten seconds on Google to find easily located public information about what's really happening.  The school has stated repeatedly that the content of honors classes is not being dumbed down (the FAQ says that explicitly, except it says "dummied down" and gives an example of one metric used to make sure this is the case -- lexile scores).   Why are so many parents so invested in insisting on no evidence whatsoever that this is untrue?  Or maybe they have some inside information I don't? :roll:   [/quote]

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