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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in the DCC with a middle schooler, and as we look at the course offerings at each school, I struggle to find one that has both strong STEM offerings and IB English.  Am I missing something?  Our home school, Einstein, has IB but no AP science classes.  [/quote]

We are finding the same too. Home school is Blair. My impression is that overall the English instruction is weak across the board unless in some type of special program. Math/Science seems to have more advanced options across several schools (not all - but several).

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One thing to know is that "Honors for All" for high school English is relatively new, which means that concerted advocacy could probably get it changed. Up until last year, schools with IB programs were allowed to offer "Pre-IB English 9" and "Pre-IB English 10." Schools without IB were allowed to offer Honors English 9 and 10, which were cohorted and accelerated. This year's 10th graders are the first class that has to deal with those classes going away, but it does mean that a curriculum exists and could be brought back in a matter of months, should there be any political will behind it. [/quote]

Honors could be required to simply use the most challenging texts and options from the new curriculum MCPS is writing. But MCPS doesn't want to do that. They are fine with supposed honors classes having below-grade level texts because they know it's not real honors. [/quote]

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