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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, all middle schools English classes are taught in advanced level? What are AP and Honor English classes then? Are those for HS only?[/quote]

All middle school ELA classes are "advanced" on paper, but in reality they are barely at grade level. I mean that literally. I have a current 6th grader. This year they have read two books in "Advanced" English. One had a lexile level of 810L and the other was in the low 900s. That's roughly the 25th percentile and 50th percentile for grade level in 6th grade. On the flip side, before this change in 2020, the norm for Advanced English in 6th grade was books in the 1400s, and that is still the norm at the Humanities Magnet (admission to which is now famously by lottery).

For HS, the current pathway is "Honors English 9" and "Honors English 10" both of which are again barely on grade level, and then AP Literature and AP Language in 11th and 12th. Some schools have begun offering AP Seminar in 10th to deal with the lack of a  true Honors option, but that's not universal and it still means that highly able kids go from 6th - 9th grade barely reading at grade level for school. [/quote]

That’s sadly better than the “honors” English 9 texts, which have some HL texts in the 400s. [/quote]

I'm sure the excerpts the kids are getting in MS are equally bad, but I was shocked at how low level the books were. [/quote]

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