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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So there are enriched classes? AIM is enriched, right?

How do you know these classes will be watered down?

Is it not unlikely that there is a large cohort of kids that have been identified as high achieving? So does it not make sense to have many kids in the enriched class?[/quote]

We are talking about all 6th graders will be in the magnet social studies class.  And all in compact math will be in AIM.  I don't know why they keep renaming stuff when it's literally just name changing.  MCPS should call it what it is and stop toying with the parents to make them think that high abled kids (cohorts) are being offered an alternative if they were deny admission to Takoma/Eastern due to cohort.[/quote]

So, to be clear, you have no idea if the new class will be challenging. Your gripe is that you think too many kids are going to be in the class. You think the class should be more exclusive.

My understanding is that all these kids were tested and found to have a large peer cohort at their home middle school. There are a lot of bright kids st your school! You should be happy about this. A peer cohort means your child will not be an outlier and the class will not be dumbed down. [/quote]

I don't think you get the point in the original post.  It is not about being exclusive, and feeling special because of exclusivity.  It is about watering down coursework by allowing every single 6th grader in it.  As much as I think greatly about our school, I do not think every single child is highly abled.  There were charts MCPS published in the past with how many abled kids were identified for each middle school, and it wasn't 300-400 kids.  So I think you are twisting this into an "OP thinks her kid is a snowflake and only daughter is special enough to deserve such enrichment."[/quote]

Sorry. That is kind of what I get from the op. Do all 6th graders take AIM? [/quote]

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