Reply to Is English now “Honors for All” at mcps high schools?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Is English now “Honors for All” at mcps high schools?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][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]

When it was rolled out to only a few schools originally, parents at other schools misunderstood the label and thought Honors MS English courses were being piloted. They completely missed the purpose of the course.  When the pilot for the additional skills was over and schools were supposed to implement it, they got roped into creating sections that parents believed were Honors. Then, schools realized that to read and write critically all students needed exposure to these skills. Hence, only advanced is offered. It’s better to think of it as a 21st curriculum. Don’t all kids today need that? Wouldn’t you find it weird that some kids had a curriculum to prepare them for the 2020s and beyond, but other kids got a late 20th century curriculum? There might be a need for a level of MS English that is for gifted kids who aren’t in the Eastern and MLK magnets, but the dividing line should not be that GT-identified kids learn to the skills to read and write critically, but other kids don’t.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics