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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no way every kid is bright enough to take honors anything. Not helping those kids work towards a future job,[/quote]

Its not honors.  It is grade level but parents are happier if it is called honors and kids GPAs are helped by the extra point...but really MCPS is out of 5 not 4 and hte collleges can see that.,[/quote]

Yep.  Same idea as why everyone is in Advanced English in Middle School.  The class is a joke and there is no differentiation.  The soft bigotry of low expectations is depressing and serves no one.  [/quote]

Advanced English was never supposed to be Honors English for MS or just for gifted kids. It was supposed to be extra lessons to teach analysis skills that the old curriculum didn’t include. Hypothetically, you could have a heterogenous classroom where some students did the extra lessons and others didn’t but there might be gifted kids in either group. Two things happened:[b] Parents misunderstood the advanced label and thought it mean the kids must be gifted so they all wanted in[/b]. Curriculum specialists realized that all kids needed these analysis skills in order to read and write critically so they wanted all students to access the lessons. [/quote]

At our MCPS middle school, there simply is no other option than advanced English.  Parents can’t request anything.  All kids are placed in the same (terrible) class.  [/quote]

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