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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let us say if some one from CES with MAP-R and MAP-P 270's were to move to VA for 6th grade, what kind of program rigor can we expect? Due to the lottery system now, did not get into any of the regional or consortium programs. Local school is at the bottom of the ranking list and is not an option[/quote]

I'm one of the earlier posters, and my daughter was in this situation. As a rising 6th grader, we weren't yet sure we'd qualify for the VA, and so we asked her home school whether she could go into Algebra 1. They refused. I was so relieved when the VA switched her to Algebra in the first week of school without so much as a raised eyebrow! Since she was also in her 6th year of violin, she was placed in advanced orchestra.

Truthfully, it's all pretty boring and easy for her. But that's not the VA's fault. Her home school would have been even worse, since they refused to accelerate her.

MCPS really needs to expand magnet seating AND do away with that unfair lottery. To keep life interesting, my daughter belongs to an online community of writers and artists, where she's more challenged, and she plays in an audition-based orchestra and chamber group. It'll get better when she's in high school - either she'll be in a magnet program, or she can do a ton of AP classes.

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For the music part, even in person, she isn't going to be challenged and we are probably in the same audition based orchestra and if you are comparing anything MCPS to that, its not even comparable. The level of playing and instruction is greatly different.  For those things, regardless of virtual or in person, you have to do them outside of MCPS.

MCPS creates the curriculum, not the schools, so for everything but math, it is pretty slow and boring.  There is no acceleration in English, Math or Social Studies at any school.

One thing to think about is if you do plan to go back to your home school and you put your 6th grader on the Algebra track (and we did too), is that your home school may not have Algebra 2 and your child may have to go to the local high school to take it as the VA and home school schedules do not align.  [/quote]

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