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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I know you mean well..But it is not true at all. English language learning has nothing to do with doing magnet work. They can work hard and be as good or better than kids who can only speak one language. Most of the parents of the magnet kids are immigrants whose native language isn't English. Stop with the patronizing lotteries please.[/quote]

You are confusing, maybe intentionally, kids for whom English is a second or third language and kids who are not at all proficient in the language. I have a child who is bilingual, as my partner and I used the "one person one language" approach. But my chiild isn't an English Language Learner - he is bilingual.

You are also confusing the conversation at hand. The point of mentioning ELLs was nothing about lotteries - it was that MCPS refuses to offer differentiation at the MS level. So, "advanced" English includes both kids who could work at the magnet level and kids who began reading in English last year.

Imagine having your child in a math class where some of the kids were doing pre-algebra and others were still learning two-digit addition. Thankfully, MCPS is still offering varying levels of math instruction in MS but "Advanced English" is a free-for-all of kids operating at wildly different levels. If MCPS would just allow the "highly able" kids (including those for whom English is a second language) to be cohorted for math AND English and HIGH, I think a lot of the drama around magnet admissions would subside. [/quote]

At our school everyone (I mean every single student at the school) takes Advanced English and Global Humanities so basically they're regular English and Social Studies.[/quote]

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