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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here, thank you for the responses. I assumed they would still group the kids according to ability, but I guess not. This doesn’t seem to be good for anyone but the middle. [/quote]

It is not good for the middle, either, because they get stuck with a lot of kids who aren’t paying attention. (Either because it is too easy boring, or because they don’t care) [/quote]

Yeah, I was thinking this also.  It’s not good for any student.

But MCPS dislikes differentiation in ES and MS because it doesn’t help close the Achievement Gap and it racially discriminatory.  So, basically, now kids of ALL races are left to suffer because nobody gets any quality writing instruction in MS.  [/quote]

Clearly this is untrue or they wouldn’t offer things like Enriched Literacy, CES, Magnet programs, or accelerated Math.  Not to mention basic reading groups.  You could make the case that not all teachers or all schools do differentiation well, but saying MCPS doesn’t like it is just false.[/quote]

What percentage of MCPS kids attend a MCPS Magnet MS and have access to the enriched MS Language Arts curriculum?[/quote]

We don't enriched LA curriculum at our MS.  We have accelerated math only because they put the kids in higher grade math classes and bus the kids for Algebra 2 to the high school.[/quote]

But yet some MS do offer Algebra2. As noted others bus kids to the HS for Algebra 2.  Which further supports the point that MCPS is not against differentiation.  Its like some of ya’ll get joy from making these broad sweeping(usually negative) generalizations.  As though the grass is greener somewhere else and you’re being held hostage here in MCPS.[/quote]

This thread is about MS English.  It’s in the title.

It is true that MCPS does not offer meaningful differentiation in English and Writing, except for a minuscule percentage of kids who are accepted into one of the Magnets.  
What percentage of kids in MCPS have access to an enriched/accelerated/advanced curriculum in MS?  [/quote]

Exactly. The only kids offered meaningful differentiation in English in MS are at Eastern. There are 37,000+ kids in middle school in MCPS. How many are in the Eastern magnet? 300 or so? [/quote]

Plus those at the MLK magnet too.[/quote]

Great.  Add those in.  Maybe a max of 600 kids in the whole county who get into the middle school magnet and get an enriched curriculum in English?  That might even be an overestimate.

600 kids out of 37,000.  I’m not great at Math, but that’s maybe 2% of kids getting enrichment in MS.  Every other kid is stuck in not advanced ‘Advanced English’ just wasting time.  [/quote]

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