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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's obviously not fine.  If it were, the high-performing suburban schools in this Metro area would go with 9th and 10th grade Honors for Al.  They manifestly do not.[/quote]

That is a ridiculous response.[/quote]

Why is it ridiculous?  You can't invent your own best practices to best serve your most advanced students like this.  When you dumb down your curriculum for students who could reasonably aspire to attend the nation's top universities and liberal arts colleges, these kids will obviously struggle to compete down the track.  Nobody would argue that banning traveling sports teams for DC teenagers would constitute best practices in preparing students to play college ball.  By the same token, Honors for All constitutes weak prep for the strongest students.[/quote]

I think that logic requires that we agree with your assessment of the academic trajectory of Wilson's policy; however, most DC parents would probably disagree with your assessment of HOW bad the result is.  I believe most studies show that the strongest students are not noticeably adversely affected, academically, by mainstream classrooms; the only question is what opportunities to improve are they losing by being mainstreamed.  I think most parents, in DC anyway, won't think that "undefined academic loss" is harmful enough to flee...at least with respect to Wilson HS, anyway.  That undefined loss also does not account for the social benefit that kids gain from being in a mainstream class, especially in an urban environment.[/quote]

Do you think Wilson should cut advanced classes?[/quote]

Wilson isn't cutting advanced classes. They offer 28 AP classes, and students can also dual-enroll at a local university. The Wilson-part of this thread is full of hysterical people. I think it also needs a sock-puppeting check.  [/quote]

28 AP classes that anyone can enroll in.[/quote]

This is how it has always been - nothing new to this principal. And parents whose kids are at Wilson or recently say that the problem you imagine doesn't exist; the brightest students of all backgrounds go on to attend elite colleges, get high SAT scores etc etc etc.

Further, there are fewer kids not at grade level now than there ever have been, and given the SES trajectory of all of its feeders, this trend will grow.

But why not just keep fear-mongering to manufacture a crisis. 
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