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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child did not attend a magnet middle school and is still the magnet IB. It's challenging and they're doing well. Having seen them go to TPMS as a non-magnet student, however, I have to say I'm not very impressed with the rigor of those classes, and I'm more than a little pissed off at what my child missed out on.

(We moved to the state too late to apply to the magnet program. It's a one and done: move in December after the cut-off? You're out.)

Example: science class, 7th grade. One homework assignment was a word finder where my child had to circle words like homestasis in a grid of letters. That was the entire assignment. They did not learn definitions for these words. Just had to circle them.

Another example: English class, 6th grade. They read the Rats if Nimh. My child read this book in third grade in DCPS.

There was a fair amount of homework, in fact, but most of it was inspired, rote, and bored my child to tears.

From what I've heard, instruction in non-magnet middle schools for advanced kids is much better.[/quote]
You can teach the same book at different levels. We read The Hobbit at university in my studies on the epic class, alongside The Aeneid.[/quote]

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