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Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

Does that upset you? Does this appease parents if all kids have access to the enriched curriculm or do parents really only care about the quality of the peer group?

No, it doesn’t upset me. As long as my DC is challenged and enjoying what she is learning I don’t really care what they teach elsewhere in the school.

Is she enjoying it?

It’s only week two but she loves it. The teacher is rather amazing.

So your daughter is in the magnet class with peers, but all of the 6th graders have access to the enriched curriculum?

Sounds like “Advanced English.”

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Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

Does that upset you? Does this appease parents if all kids have access to the enriched curriculm or do parents really only care about the quality of the peer group?

No, it doesn’t upset me. As long as my DC is challenged and enjoying what she is learning I don’t really care what they teach elsewhere in the school.

Is she enjoying it?

It’s only week two but she loves it. The teacher is rather amazing.

So your daughter is in the magnet class with peers, but all of the 6th graders have access to the enriched curriculum?

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Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

Does that upset you? Does this appease parents if all kids have access to the enriched curriculm or do parents really only care about the quality of the peer group?

No, it doesn’t upset me. As long as my DC is challenged and enjoying what she is learning I don’t really care what they teach elsewhere in the school.

Is she enjoying it?

It’s only week two but she loves it. The teacher is rather amazing.

Rosa Parks (60 kids are in the global humanities)

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Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

Does that upset you? Does this appease parents if all kids have access to the enriched curriculm or do parents really only care about the quality of the peer group?

No, it doesn’t upset me. As long as my DC is challenged and enjoying what she is learning I don’t really care what they teach elsewhere in the school.

Is she enjoying it?

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Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

Does that upset you? Does this appease parents if all kids have access to the enriched curriculm or do parents really only care about the quality of the peer group?

No, it doesn’t upset me. As long as my DC is challenged and enjoying what she is learning I don’t really care what they teach elsewhere in the school.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS had announced that all down county middle schools (all middle schools in the clusters that feed Eastern/TPMS/Blair) except for the three MSMC schools and TPMS/Eastern will have either one or both "enriched" courses. (Later I think they may have added TPMS and Eastern as well.)

Can anyone with a non-magnet student at Eastern confirm whether the enriched courses are being offered there?

I teach in the Magnet there. We don’t have the enriched SS course. Unsure about the math one. I haven’t asked.

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Anonymous wrote:Embarrassingly, I don’t know if my kid’s school is part of the pilot program. I missed back to school night. Is there a list somewhere? Does it show up differently on the parent portal list of classes? Thanks.

It's the middle schools in the catchment area for Takoma Park and Eastern (so down county schools - not the schools who have students who could apply to Clemente and King).
It does show up differently on the course list because it is a different course.
The math course is called Applied IM.
The humanities course is called something like Investigations into global humanities.

I think some schools have only one of the courses and a few schools have both.

There are other schools with them as well.

Pyle cabin John and Westland among others

Also Hoover and Frost

The schools listed here (and following) follow what the PP said-- they are in the Eastern and Takoma Park catchment area, and not the Clemente catchment area.
For middle school magnets there are two areas, one downcounty that sends students to Eastern/Takoma Park, (this is the group or catchment area that was part of the field test last year) and the other area sends kids to the magnets at Clemente and now King. Every middle school is part of one catchment area or the other.

This has been in many of the MPCS documents - both describing the field test and the new courses. There is more information out there than a lot of people on this board are reading.

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Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

Does that upset you? Does this appease parents if all kids have access to the enriched curriculm or do parents really only care about the quality of the peer group?

well the K-8 curriculum has sucked the last few years so they need to do something to improve things, everywhere!

Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

Does that upset you? Does this appease parents if all kids have access to the enriched curriculm or do parents really only care about the quality of the peer group?

Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

Other middle schools are likely to follow this..

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Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

everyone is gifted at Pyle!

Pyle hates parents who agitate for gifted ed. Really condescending toward them. At least they can no longer say “go to the magnets if you want that.” They probably jusyt everyone in the advanced class because they figured everyone would demand it anyway. What do you mean though that the principal is tough?

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Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

everyone is gifted at Pyle!

Hmm. Tough principal there - way to protect the cohort/peer group.
construct.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS had announced that all down county middle schools (all middle schools in the clusters that feed Eastern/TPMS/Blair) except for the three MSMC schools and TPMS/Eastern will have either one or both "enriched" courses. (Later I think they may have added TPMS and Eastern as well.)

Can anyone with a non-magnet student at Eastern confirm whether the enriched courses are being offered there?

Anonymous wrote:We were told at BTS night that Pyle is having everyone in 6th grade use the curriculum from the new humanities course so I am not sure if the course is truly advanced. They did not say the same thing about the advanced math class.

So why bother to run the class?