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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The interest based middle school programs are not known to be academically rigorous and I know several families that have left those programs because of the lack of rigor. Staff at CES programs and the criteria based magnets have spoken about needing to water down/simplify their teaching since the lottery started. So yes, rigor is likely to be significantly impacted if the humanities programs become interested based. [/quote]
Re: the need to water down teaching due to lottery—this is due to the lowered criteria. Criteria should be at minimum 90 percentile.

Re: interest-based MS magnets—this is not a good comparison. Students zoned in that area must choose between the three schools or else they will be randomly placed. Inevitably a portion of the schools—especially one in particular—will have students who have no interest in the subject area. In the regional model, students have to apply, so this is a completely different scenario.

The regional model’s interest-based programs would be susceptible to students who have no interest and want to escape their home school, as a PP pointed out. This would ruin these programs.[/quote]

No the solution to that is appropriate grading and rigor. Which is what is being banged into everyone’s head with this Program Analysis, absentee rate, cell phone policy, etc.[/quote]

Appropriate grading? That would be the inflated grades that school leadership signals are needed in order for the school to avoid negative scrutiny from CO.[/quote]

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