Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When my kid was at Tilden, nearly everyone took advanced English. There was maybe a section of regular, but it was for the truly behind.

So is your kid now an illiterate knuckle dragging ape as predicted or is he doing ok academically?

DP

Is that the goal of an MCPS MS education? Just to have kids who are ‘doing ok academically’?

MS Advanced English was a HUGE waste of time for my kid after coming from a regional CES. Why can’t MCPS support its higher-performing kids in MS? That’s when many students start to check out. Help keep these kids engaged.

Anonymous wrote:When my kid was at Tilden, nearly everyone took advanced English. There was maybe a section of regular, but it was for the truly behind.

So is your kid now an illiterate knuckle dragging ape as predicted or is he doing ok academically?

When my kid was at Tilden, nearly everyone took advanced English. There was maybe a section of regular, but it was for the truly behind.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a shame, and a black eye for MCPS. Parents honestly need to organize to get differentiated instruction back in MS. I'm sympathetic to the trend toward heterogenous classrooms in ES for the sake of equity, but by middle school kids have either taken advantage of the opportunities MCPS has provided or they have not.

Chuckles and gathers popcorn to wait and see who these parents are going to be. Especially when different schools already do different things in English regardless of class name.

Differentiated instruction means flexible grouping within the same classroom. I think PP really means tracking, where students are grouped by ability and that group is static all year.