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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the problems with acceleration in the lower grades at schools like Brent is that it won't be supported in the upper grades.  Even Walls wants kids who come in with advanced math skills to go back and retake stuff they've already mastered.  They have a half-baked math placement test but it's a joke, basically it's cover for the fact that they can't handle accelerated students.[/quote]

I believe it.  Looks to me like push will come to shove over math placement at Walls in the next couple of years, with dozens of BASIS kids who took algebra before 8th grade (including half a dozen who took it in 5th!) testing in.  Walls is going to come under new pressure to give serious math placement tests, and to permit advanced math classes where most of the students are white or Asian.  If they continue to balk, parents may well sue.  I hope that a class action suit is the result, one that will embarrass DCPS nationally.  [/quote]

Honestly, I say why give the placement test for students from BASIS or other schools if they have a C or better in their grades i  highschool level math classes? BASIS has used Saxon math in all of their schools for well over a decade if not longer with a very good track record for having their students do well on math standardized tests and AP Calculus exams. I say place the student in the correct level based on transcripts and not on placement testing and it should be obvious whether they are placed correctly or not within a few weeks of starting course.

Also, DCPS is dropping the ball by insisting that BASIS students who pass the AP world History exam in 8th grade repeat the AP World history class at Walls. This is just wrong and goes against the supposed differentiation which DCPS touts as the answer to meeting advanced kids needs which is bullshit![/quote]

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