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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our middle school there is only one section of regular English. Only kids who are below grade level are in it. Everyone else is in advanced English.

OP, advanced classes in MCPS middle schools are not what you think.[/quote]

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Our MS only has Advanced English.  MCPS just calls it that.  No other options.[/quote]

Not to minimize parental frustration with MCPS middle school classes (which I've shared), but a part of me finds it hilarious that MCPS apparently views itself to be like Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon where "all children are above average" so of course they should only have Advanced classes.[/quote]

MCPS: has regular and advanced classes.
Some MCPS parents: "My kid needs to be in the advanced class!"
Other MCPS parents: "Even the "advanced" class is years behind the classes in [somewhere that isn't MCPS]!"
Yet other MCPS parents: "Shouldn't every kid have access to a challenging, enriching curriculum?"
MCPS: puts everybody in the advanced classes.
DCUM: "Ha ha, stupid MCPS thinks everybody is above average."[/quote]

Wait, there is no denying that there are SOME parents like this out there - that push their kids to the top.  However, MCPS does this all on their own.  We had a meeting 2 years ago in our ES with 2 county administrators about major issues with the direction of compacted math and adding more kids and watering down the advancement of it.  They said their goal was in 3 years to have ALL kids.  Every single 4th and 5th grader in the county (we questioned it and they came back and said yes ALL)  All of them in compact math.   :roll:

I mean to start with handfuls of kids and then keep adding more while lowering the advancement and then add ALL the kids and make it presentable to all of them, means more lowering.  It is no longer compacted math.  It is 4th and 5th grade math with a fake name.  I mean the concept was over their heads. They were literally confused as we were trying to explain that it is no longer compact math  :lol:

And don't get me started about their "grading system" and how ridiculously easy it is to get all A's [/quote]

Agree with this.

At our ES, they decided to put ALL kids in Compacted Math.  It was ridiculous.  Sure, some kids could handle it.  But, some kids can't.

Teach the kids AT THEIR LEVEL.  Really, it shouldn't be that hard.  Instead, MCPS cares more about optics and showing how many kids are in 'advanced' classes.

At our MS, some parents asked about the Advance English option, because they actually felt their kids were not ready for 'advanced' English.  They were told that there is no other option for English in 6th grade.  ALL kids have to take 'Advanced' English.  In which case, why not just name it English 6.

Ridiculous.  [/quote]

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