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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed with everyone saying actual acceleration and differentiation. The thing is, this would be SO EASY.

MCPS had actual Advanced English for MS up until just a few years ago. It existed so recently that our home school accidentally used the summer reading handout from that era a year ago, and only later clarified that everyone should do the easier version. The Advanced version was right there! We could all see that it was more rigorous, but the children were only held to the on-level homework.

Similarly, the HIGH curriculum was developed for an advanced cohort, back when MCPS started using peer norming for MS magnet admissions. The explicit promise at that time (which I can still find in Parent Vue) was that kids who would have previously attended the MS magnets would receive an equivalent education at their home school, through the introduction of HIGH and AIM.

Of course, now HIGH is honors for all at most schools, and AIM no longer exists.

The one place I disagree with PPs is about offering advanced math if only 10 kids sign up. That's not a good use of resources, and those kids should do what they've always done and travel to HS for Algebra II or whatever they need.

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AIM exists in my kid’s school. Other schools have advanced 6th graders take 7+. Either way kids are leaning 7/8 standards in one year. And regardless, next year these students will take the new Pre-Algebra class — also compacting 7/8 standards into a year.

HIGH is cohorted in my kid’s school but is still a joke. It adds one project and two very short, easy books to the base curriculum — it is not rigorous and is just too easy. I am not surprised that they do HIGH for all in some schools because it is an easy class, not at all comparable to what they do in Eastern.

They need a truly advanced social studies class and need to add truly advanced, cohorted English and science classes in all schools. Math and language are the only potentially challenging courses for kids right now, which means that magnets play a disproportionately important role for gifted/advanced students.[/quote]

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