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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone with a rising 5th grader currently in compacted math get a letter noting their student will return to grade level math next year? [/quote]

No. Every MS has their own process for determining who goes into what class between ES and MS. Many schools put all kids coming from compacted math in the highest option available for 6th graders regardless of grades, test scores or teacher recs[/quote]

With apologies to the PP who was asking about rising 5th, the MS placement process is [i]supposed[/i] to be more strictly defined centrally going forward, even if the local school implements that (comms or otherwise).   While that should lower some aspects of variability across schools, those standards are going to tighten, with fewer, overall, being placed in PreAlgebra, and with discouragement, if not proscription, of adding in students on the margin to create manageable class sizes.  We'll have to see if they institute this in 27-28 a bit differently from 28-29, since the higher end of the earlier incoming 6th-grade class will have covered 6th standards more fully in compacted 5/6 while the higher end of the following ones will have had less comprehensive acceleration into 6th standards with the on grade level-based cluster model.

Given the measures they have on hand to make determinations, it may well be that we again end up with a situation where lots of kids in better off areas get placed highly due to the synthesis of greater outside enrichment and the higher performing large cohort to which their ES's then could direct teaching resources, while few from other areas are highly placed.[/quote]

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