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[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]

Nonsense, you certainly don't need to go private to find middle school rigor in Arlington, particularly with the roll out of the new 7th grade intensified science, social studies and English classes. You can bump up the intensified classes curriculum yourself by adding relevant readings that build off what the school is assigning and supplementing with tutors and summer enrichment camps if you can afford it.  We incentivize our APS middle schoolers to read widely outside the curriculum and they cooperate.  We also hire writing tutors to assign extra writing assignments. We pay around 5K a year per kid to add rigor. What we don't do is pay 30-45K for non-sectarian privates full of spoiled white kids living in cocoon worlds who don't necessarily put nose to the grindstone.[/quote]

How sad. Going to an APS middle school is such a waste of time that you’ve ended up homeschooling them.[/quote]

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