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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I asked about the math track at Ida B. Wells. The kids are able to advance up to the next math class--if it's not an offered Middle School class, they (and any other kids who qualify and a middle school teacher) go to the high school class at Coolidge (Wells and Coolidge are in the same building, but largely separated). This is how it worked at my small rural school as well--you went to the high school class as a middle schooler. I admit, I was a bit intimidated by the older kids in class because I was shy, but it was an overall good experience to challenge myself. And I still had some friends in my class.[/quote]

This is how it works at McKinley Middle/McKinley Tech as well. It's just a different hallway in the same building. When I was a kid doing this, we had to walk across the town common uphill both ways in the snow![/quote]

The issue is that if you are accelerated you wind up in the next level class with kids who are older and not as good as math. And even older kids who are repeating a class.  It's not like they are sending kids to Bannaker to take the next level math class.   This is why acceleration often doesn't produce kids who are better at math.  It just produces kids who are faster at getting through  low expectation math.  [/quote]

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