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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed with everyone saying actual acceleration and differentiation. The thing is, this would be SO EASY.

MCPS had actual Advanced English for MS up until just a few years ago. It existed so recently that [b]our home school accidentally used the summer reading handout from that era a year ago, and only later clarified that everyone should do the easier version. [/b]The Advanced version was right there! We could all see that it was more rigorous, but the children were only held to the on-level homework.

Similarly, the HIGH curriculum was developed for an advanced cohort, back when MCPS started using peer norming for MS magnet admissions. The explicit promise at that time (which I can still find in Parent Vue) was that kids who would have previously attended the MS magnets would receive an equivalent education at their home school, through the introduction of HIGH and AIM.

Of course, now HIGH is honors for all at most schools, and AIM no longer exists.

The one place I disagree with PPs is about offering advanced math if only 10 kids sign up. That's not a good use of resources, and those kids should do what they've always done and travel to HS for Algebra II or whatever they need.

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This is SO SAD! It's almost funny how stupid it is. But what a shame for our kids.[/quote]

It was so stupid. I made my child do the harder version, and the teacher never even accepted the homework because it was to do a presentation and she had not set aside time for kids to present. So the work my kid did sat in her locker for the entire school year, and then came home on the last day of school. [/quote]

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