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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And as people have stated, putting less weight on test scores would result in lowering the ability of the group:
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Kimberly Petrola, a fourth-grade teacher at Fox Chapel Elementary School in Germantown, one of the Centers for Enriched Studies, [b]acknowledged that instruction had changed since the school became part of the pilot program last year, ahead of the rest of the county.

With a more diverse student body, not every child performed above grade level[/b], Ms. Petrola said. She said she and other teachers used ability grouping to teach at different levels. For example, for a unit in which students read an author’s autobiography and fiction side by side, to look for consistent themes, some groups were assigned authors who wrote at a more challenging reading level.[/quote][/quote]

That was happening 15+ years ago, when the HGC was expanded due to political pressure.

~CES (former HGC) teacher[/quote]

This is so gonna happen to the 1-2 magnet classes in the pilot MSs, and then to pilot HSs and so on. To 100% catch up the magnet curriculum, you need student not only bright, but the outlier of the total, not the outlier from each school. Similarly, grouping outliers of the whole together with other "bright" peers would certainly wash down the local magnet program - teacher has to slow down for a diversified group to catch up, or keep the speed and left a lot of kids failed. Not to mention the lack of "bright teacher" in local program and lack of enough training for the magnet curriculum. This is what "political correctness" do to MCPS. [/quote]

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