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So how many students are truly able to demonstrate their need for advancement in math to MCPS satisfaction? What are the criteria? How many students will be provided accelerated opportunities in math? If not 1/3 of the grade, is it 1/10 of the grade, 1/100 of the grade, etc.?

I went to a cluster meeting several years ago laying the groundwork for the new math curriculum and the MCPS math curriculum rep indicated that in her decades long teaching career, she had only encountered a few students who were truly unique and needed more than the new curriculum would provide. Having heard that, the comment about continued opportunities does not reassure me.[/quote]

All students are given the opportunity to accel if that is what is appropriate for them.  If you feel that your child is in dire need of this, you should be scheduling a meeting with your child's teacher or with the principal to discuss your child and provide evidence, or ask to see their evidence, for his/her placement.

It would be silly to set a percentage like that as a policy. That was never the intent of the old acceleration model either, it's just kind of what happened as schools got into competition with one another over who was accelerating more kids and more and more parents demanded that their children be pushed ahead in math.  Now, students are looked at on an individual basis, which is how I think it should be.  There might be one student in a grade who is ready, so like the previous example, they might be sent to a higher grade level class.  There might be 5 from across the grade level, so they might be pulled in a small group by a focus teacher daily or a few times per week.

If you are looking for numbers like that, you're not going to get them for a reason-because those of us actually educating the children have found that making blanket statements like, "We will accelerate 50% of our students to the next grade level" gets us a bunch of kids who are woefully underprepared for middle and high school math, and beyond.[/quote]

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