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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no way every kid is bright enough to take honors anything. Not helping those kids work towards a future job,[/quote]

Its not honors.  It is grade level but parents are happier if it is called honors and kids GPAs are helped by the extra point...but really MCPS is out of 5 not 4 and hte collleges can see that.,[/quote]

Yep.  Same idea as why everyone is in Advanced English in Middle School.  The class is a joke and there is no differentiation.  The soft bigotry of low expectations is depressing and serves no one.  [/quote]

Advanced English was never supposed to be Honors English for MS or just for gifted kids. It was supposed to be extra lessons to teach analysis skills that the old curriculum didn’t include. Hypothetically, you could have a heterogenous classroom where some students did the extra lessons and others didn’t but there might be gifted kids in either group. Two things happened:[b] Parents misunderstood the advanced label and thought it mean the kids must be gifted so they all wanted in[/b]. Curriculum specialists realized that all kids needed these analysis skills in order to read and write critically so they wanted all students to access the lessons. [/quote]

At our MCPS middle school, there simply is no other option than advanced English.  Parents can’t request anything.  All kids are placed in the same (terrible) class.  [/quote]

That is a total joke to think that all kids can succesfully complete that class. What about the ones who can't read at that level?[/quote]

There are levels within the levels. They just aren’t labeled, but you can tell which level by who the kids in the class are.[/quote]

Not so sure this is true. I think it's more that some would like to imagine it. I remember a neighbor parent telling me their child was in the highest 1st grade math class which was different than what my kids was in who was scoring 20-30 points over the 99%. The reality was there were several enriched classes that were the same. [/quote]

Mom of poor student here... Yes, in my kids "honors" English it was all the remedial kids in the same class.
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At our MS the only English is "Advanced" so it's basically remedial. My kid's teacher is great but the course is just to basic. Their 4th grade CES was 2X more challenging.[/quote]

Why didn’t your child go to the Communications magnet?[/quote]

What Communications Magnet?  There is no such thing.  [/quote]

Probably referring to Eastern and MLK. There are very few spots at Eastern and MLK. There is a huge need in the county for honors English at every MS. After the Metis report, not only did MCPS not expand the number of MS magnet seats, they also did not provide an honors English curriculum. They did add honors social studies, but that is not English class.[/quote]

They added "enriched" social studies classes, but there are no "Honors" middle school classes. Only (some) HS classes taught in middle school carry Honors credit.[/quote]

This. And the clarification has been made countless times by MCPS and restated here on this website in hundreds of threads, but DCUM refuses to believe it.[/quote]

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