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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But what happens when we arrive back at where we started- with tracking? With being able to tell which class is honors and which is on level based on the color of the kids’ skin when you walk by the rooms? That is not okay and there ARE teachers who don’t want that either![/quote]

There are ways to mitigate some of that, like having truly rigorous honors classes but not gatekeeping them (allowing anyone who's not genuinely below-level to enroll or even making enrollment the default unless they opt out, and providing extra outside of class supports for kids who want to take them but aren't quite prepared to succeed, to help them keep up without slowing the classes down for the others.)

But really unfortunately there's no good answer here (at least not one without investing a lot more effort and resources than MCPS is willing to invest.) Having everyone in the same below-level classes because you don't want to see any racial disparities is not a good solution either. [/quote]

Offering truly rigorous classes without gatekeeping is the obvious answer here. Make it more like math - there's no shame in dropping from Honors Pre-Calculus to On-Level, for example. Offer a genuinely rigorous experience, and then allow movement if it's not working. [/quote]

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