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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought all of this tied into the magnets. So if a school has a large cohort of GT kids at the home school, the school has to offer the advanced classes. If the school doesn’t have the cohort, the student has a better shot of getting into the magnets.
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That’s an interesting take on it. The most obvious flaw (if that was indeed the plan) is that MS magnet admission for the incoming 6th graders does not use the peer cohort criterion.  The second issue is that admitted kids don’t necessarily attend a magnet for a variety of reasons, but they still deserve an appropriate education.

Practically, it is not feasible to run a class for one or two kids, but even if a school doesn’t officially offer IM for 6th graders, as long as they teach IM in the building, it should be possible for a 6th grader to take it. The problem is then punted to 8th grade, when they need to take math at the HS. [/quote]

Right, but MCPS has been doing that for years. Until very recently, only extreme outliers took Algebra in 6th and MCPS helped those kids with buses once they hit 8th. Now they are expanding the cohort getting Algebra in 6th in wealthy schools, but taking away even the option of AIM in poorer schools.

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They don't have Algebra for 6th at any of the Bethesda MSes I know about. Each year there may be 1 or 2 kids bu that's it. I think last year there were zero and the year before there was one at DC's elementary.[/quote]

Our MS has about a dozen.  [/quote]

There's one school either Cabin John, Hoover or one of those that has this many. There are also some higher poverty schools that do it. I don't think you can make generalizations.[/quote]

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