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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The honors classes are a joke. Every parent wants their kids in them so they are "advanced" in name only. it is useless to have the academic classes too.[/quote]

They're not a joke in school systems that allow teachers to teach honors students at an appropriately high level.[/quote]

Yes they are because there is no minimum requirement a student has to meet to take these classes. I have 10th graders who still don’t capitalize names and write their I lowercase and can’t structure a paragraph because they don’t use punctuation requesting honors because that’s what their parents want. And they can take it. Nothing stops them. A lot of kids get tracked for honors early on because they’re quiet / well behaved and/or white or Asian and then they just get this mindset that “I am an honors kid” despite lacking academic giftedness or strong work ethic or aptitude. So the honors classes aren’t even rigorous anymore because any kid can take them and then you have to water it all down for them. [/quote]

What you've described is not true for top tier public schools with an academic focus.[/quote]

lol ok [/quote]

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