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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my kids were in ES and then Pyle MS nearly everyone did compacted math. There were something like 3-4 classes for compacted and 1 for "regular".

MCPS push it because parents have pushed it. I don't know if is easing off? But you can basically decide yourself and make it known what you want.

I even tried to get my DS OUT of compacted because I felt it was going to fast and concepts were not sticking but they dissuaded me. [/quote]

The criteria for compacted math are now stricter than they were even in recent years. [b]More schools have too few kids identified to have even one class, so they have to have kids receive it virtually. This is a good thing--they are trying to identify the kids who will be successful.[/b] Previoulsy, too many kids who did compacted were not proficient in algebra when they took it.[/quote]

I have a different perspective. I think it goes hand in hand with the regional CES. They skim off a bunch of kids to go to the CES who would also very likely qualify for compacted math and then they put the rest of the kids at the local school who qualified for compacted math in virtual because they no longer have a large enough cohort for a class. They should do away with the CES and just offer the curriculum at all schools and offer in person compacted math at all schools, not offer special programs for some lucky few lottery winners, and watered down programs for the other equally qualified kids and then try to spin it like it’s a good thing. [/quote]

They have been skimming off kids for CES for a long time. The tighter standards for placement in compacted math are driving the switch to virtual in some schools — there just aren’t enough kids being identified.

But I agree with you. CES is a real problem especially now that it is a lottery. Same with middle school magnets. They should be meetings bright students’
Needs at their local schools. [/quote]

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