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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid will read the whole book while the regular class reads excerpts. It’s all relative. Intensified compared to the remedial (“regular”) class? Yes. But hardly an honors class. If you want rigor, you’ll need to go private.[/quote]

My kid was at Swanson in 7th grade before the intensified classes were offered (now a rising 9th grader so 8th grade she took intensified classes) and this isn't true.  They read entire books in 7th grade.

Just throwing in some facts if it helps.[/quote]

I think that’s their point — that the “intensified” classes are just regular classes, and that the regular classes are actually remedial courses.[/quote]

So you're saying that because APS now offers intensified classes, the regular classes they no longer read books?  So there is no intensified at all, it's that APS renamed regular classes intensified and regular classes were dumbed down.  I would ask APS or an actual teacher and not listen to people on this board personally.  I have just seen over and over that people misrepresent the homework and test retake policies and portray they do nothing at school.  [/quote]

The problem is that the regular classes had already been dumbed down. Intensified classes are open to anyone who wants to sign up for them but more like what regular classes used to be [/quote]

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