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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are the different schools' requiments so different?  Does Cabin John/Hoover have so many highly able students as part of their cohort compared to Frost/Pyle?  [/quote]

I think this is the decision of the principal. I don't mind all students taking more advanced courses, as long as they're really more advanced than before. [/quote]

So from reading the posts here, at Frost and Pyle, they require a MAP score of at least 95%, but at Hoover and CJ they will just allow anyone in for the Enriched Humanities?  That doesn't make sense.  The curriculum description look exactly the same across all schools.  So if they are slotting students in more advanced courses, it must mean those kids are more advanced else why else would schools allow this?[/quote]

[b]Because those schools are scared of the parents' reaction that their kid didn't get in!  That seems obvious to me.[/b][/quote]

As someone who a) works for the county, and b) has a 6th grader in AIM and enriched Global Humanities - this statement is 100% accurate.  Principals simply get worn down by all of the parents whose child(ren) are excluded from the enrichment opportunities.  Putting all 6th graders into these enriched courses appeases those parents.  [/quote]

A bit off-topic, but my child is in 4th and didn't make it into the CES despite pretty good scores all around. The school has offered a 'pilot' enriched ELA class this year; originally, it had 30 kids in it, 'identified', presumably, by the school. By week 3 of the school year, the school decided to open a second section of the same class with 28 kids in it (I wonder, why?) Now exactly half of the grade is in 'advanced' ELA; If the trend continues, next year it will be the entire grade.
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Yep, the same thing happened with compacted math at our school.  Suddenly there was another class of 30 kids who all deserved compacted math.[/quote]

And eventually, there will be no distinction, but you will be told that the bottomline is that your kid is getting enrichment, and you are getting your panties into a knot because you are just thinking your snowflake is so special that other kids should be excluded. [/quote]

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