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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I would agree this is true until high school, when the availability of AP courses, greater choice in selection of courses, and the availability of cross-registration at MC or UMD means that proficient students have more options to challenge themselves. But, kids shouldn't have to wait until high school for this. In fact, IMO, many kids who need more stimulation/challenge are so thoroughly turned off by school by the time they get to HS, that they aren't interested in the increased rigor. [/quote]

If a student has to wait until high school (age 14) for access to these pathways is the ball game over for many who may be so far behind and fear the long hill road to catch-up with other peer-beneficiaries of "fancy" public school education (with bells, whistles and enrichment).

Can you imagine an administrative/leadership strategy of this delay for athletics/sports and music.  Make upward mobility, advancement and acceleration difficult (no or few incentives) for all until the age of 14 (high school)?

There goes all those Olympic medals and music awards and achievements.

MCPS, our wonderful educational bureaucrats who pay millions of dollars for fancy consultants (quid pro quo), are simply brilliant as they execute their real game plan/agenda.

Not all the public are as stupid and foolish as they thiink.
   
 
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