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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child did 2 intensified classes -
English and history- at Swanson this year and chose regular science.  There is no math intensified for the record, options are math 7, pre algebra or algebra.
Essentially the English class required more hours reading outside of class (which was a push at the beginning of the year and I saw none of mid way through) and they wrote exactly 2 papers on books they read ALL year.  Now those were great assignments - reading 2 different books and weaving commonalities, difference, proving a topic statement etc but it wasn’t a ton of work.
History - no idea what the extra was. Throughout the year there were complaints about having to do an extra step bc they were intensified and that extra step always seemed to be busy work vs robust learning.
My kid did say they would have preferred to be in science intensified as well bc they kids in those classes listen and want to learn and the science teacher spent a lot of time just getting kids to tune in.[/quote]

Thanks for sharing. I want to clarify that any algebra tajen in APS in middle school is Algebra I, Intensified. There is no regular algebra option before 9th grade. [/quote]

This is not true.  It is insane to me the level of wrong information given on this board regularly.  Please people do not get your information from here.  Talk to your school counselors or administrators.

Regular algebra and intensified algebra are offered to 8th graders who took pre-algebra in 7th grade.[/quote]

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