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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes SSIMS has a block schedule and there are 8 classes total. After the 5 core classes you get 3 more - one is foreign language (or 2, if you’re in immersion) and then electives.  So two electives for most kids, one for immersion kids.  Typical electives include band, orchestra, chorus, piano, guitar, digital music, dance, lights camera literacy, studio art/theater/consumer sciences, and Model UN. The Model UN teacher is amazing. [/quote]

Do they offer different electives than other middle schools? They have guitar, dance, model UN etc.? Or do all MS offer same electives?[/quote]

MCPS does its best to keep from allowing effective side-by-side comparisons of school offerings, especially as it relates to those classes actually [i]held and with enough capacity for all seeking then[/i] vs. those that are in a catalog but not held regularly.

Anecdotally, there are some schools with a greater variety of electives in their catalog and in the actual offing.  There certainly are schools where the electives offered better facilitate conpletion of the state/MCPS-required tech credit, prerequisites for CS h other sciences, and, of course, the oft-mentioned, non-catalog but routine Algebra 1 offerings for entire classes of 6th-graders, as opposed to handling that in a case-by-case, review/test-in manner (not an elective, per se).[/quote]

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