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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I wish some counselors would make more effort to understand the rigor differences between different classes. Often they just let kids take whatever class they want (which is often based on what their friends are taking) and then get annoyed when the kid is flailing and there is a request to move the student to a lower level. Or they suddenly realize they messed up and didn’t realize a kid is missing a certain grad credit and they throw the kid into a different course in the middle of the year [/quote]

Or sometimes administrators are pushing certain students into those classes for any number of reasons.    Or maybe the parents are insisting their child be "challenged" and like the PP said, MCPS doesn't want to "gatekeep".  [/quote]

There is still a lot of gatekeeping.

I recommended a student move up to the next level last year. The counselor didn’t want to use the language line so she just put the kid in on-level. This year’s teacher also recommended the student move up. The counselor still didn’t want to use the language line. Both I and the other teacher contacted the parent who contacted the counselor. The counselor told the parent that it was too late to change classes and the child should enjoy an easy class.[/quote]

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