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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Honors” English 9 & 10 are so bad. I teach in the county and there is no cohorting and you get really high fliers in the same class as kids who can barely read.

The idea is that a rising tide lifts all boats, right? And that smart kids benefit from the mixed ability classroom. But that isn’t the case. These classes often have behavioral issues too. Smart kids just keep their heads down until 11th when they take AP Lang which is just a teach to the test situation.

Unless your child gets into a magnet of some kind, English instruction in high school is grim AF for 9th and 10th.

The optics of cohorting are awful though- in a diverse school the on-level classes were full of black and brown kids with the occasional white kid and the accelerated classes were the reverse. That is not right and racial profiling happened and smart black kids got screwed. That isn’t fair.

[b]You can always find ways to supplement math and science. Not so for English and writing.[/b]

We need to do better for our students in a way that doesn’t perpetuate racial profiling. I don’t have the answer but what we have now sucks. And what we had before was racist. [/quote]

You can absolutely supplement in English and writing. AOPS has excellent English classes. We have an enrichment literature tutor who works with my kid on both analysis and writing. There are lots of grammar resources out there too.

But agree with you that this shouldn't be necessary. They need to provide better instruction in MCPS. [/quote]

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