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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously?  No AIM?  C’mon now, there’s so many G&T students at Tilden.  That’s just not right (if true).[/quote]

It has 3 elementary, right? That's large enough to form one class of AIM. Some one from Tilden can confirm, but I will be surprised if AIM is not offered there. It's a large enough middle school.

Julius west has 2 AIM math class, but it has 4-5 ES.[/quote]
My child is zoned for Tilden but got into a magnet MS and never went to Tilden. I clearly remember Tilden offering AIM for 6th grade. But that was before COVID, and if Tilden isn't offering AIM now, it's a crying shame. There was so many kids in DC's elementary advanced math and English..[/quote]

They had aim in the 19-20 school year. But the teacher said there was really no difference between AIM and IM. There was supposedly an enrichment project each MP but it either didn’t happen or wasn’t much before Covid and then March 2020 happened and there wasn’t really class let alone enrichment. Those kids did Algebra 1 during the virtual year and H Geometry last year.

HIGH was robust during the 19-20 school year but gutted during virtual and the equivalent US History class for 8th grade was grossly watered down because the school felt it was too much for the kids just coming back. The problem with that approach is now those kids are in AP Gov at WJ and it is huge leap.[/quote]

If they had it till 19-20 then they should have it now.

I can't compare because my kid is taking AIM and I have no refence point. I loved math as a child and I think AIM is interesting because it focuses on real life use of math in each unit. I don't know what they teach in 6/7/8, 6+/7+/8+ or in IM, but I think every single child will benefit from what they teach in AIM. I wish home school had similar courses in other subjects as well. Kid got into lottery in both magnet but did not win the lottery. I liked what I saw in AIM and also to some extent in HIGH. He is learning to critically think and write due to HIGH and not due to English class he takes. English is supposed to be advance.

There are so many kids who can benefit from having AIM and HIGH, but my understanding is that you have to be in magnet pool for that. I don't get the process to be honest.

It's ok to make courses hard as long as kids are challenged and learning from. AIM has been lot of work despite math loving kid. I am happy with it. [/quote]

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