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[quote=Anonymous]I have 2 fifth graders feeding into Pyle MS.  The placement options were Reading/Advanced Reading, English/Advanced English and then the math options.  We were told that kids who scored high on reading would have the option of taking a Foreign Language class (full or 1/2 year) in 6th Grade, in lieu of the reading with letters regarding qualifying to be sent out later, but the teachers sent email strongly encouraging parents to consider still taking the reading and waiting on the foreign language for 7th Grade regardless of how "advanced" a reader your kid was.  Reasons given were high school grade credit, demanding homework, county wide standardized exams, etc and the reading class was described as an excellent course to take regardless of how good a reader your kid was.  Bottom line, unless your kid has the option and is really eager to tackle a foreign language, the message was to wait until 7th Grade.  As for the math, I get the sense that all the kids that were in Math 7 were placed in IM except for 1 or 2 who were placed in Algebra, and kids in Math 6 were moved to Math 7.   I didn't realize the advanced and regular classes for reading and english were combined in one classroom, that's helpful information to know.[/quote]

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