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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Admin wants to make this about race.  Let’s talk about it then.  I asked 2 of my AA friends (1 is a single mom, the other middle class family) what they thought about HFA.  Both thought it was a terrible idea.  The single mom said school was hard for her, and she would never want to be put in an honors class.  It’s setting her up to fail.  The other parents said the same thing.  Setting up the kids who can’t handle an honors course up to fail. Bad idea.  [/quote]

Above is me.  I forgot to add that I asked them if they thought it was a race issue because basically that was how admin was presenting it as such.  Both said no, not at all.  [/quote]

My niece (who is white BTW) goes to school in NoVA.  She is an 8th grader and has always done well in math.  This year, she is taking an honors math course for the first time.  Although trying hard, she was struggling and failing the course.  My SIL, after 2 months, pulled her out and put her back in regular math, and she is doing well and much happier.

She came to visit us for the weekend, and I asked her what she thought was the issue.  Her responseb- the honors math pace was too fast.  They were learning new things everyday, and she still had not understood the previous day’s lessons.  She said the regular math pace is slower and gives her more time to learn the info before advancing to the next topic.

So if everyone is thrown into HFA, what is admin going to do with the kids who can’t keep up if the premise is that course content and pace will not change?  Fail them?  There is no lower course to move them into.  It’s not about race.  It’s about meeting academic abilities appropriately. [/quote]

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