Anonymous wrote:hi OP, we are in this exact situation: in a charter, going to Deal next year. for 6th grade. We are in 16th Street Heights... any chance you are too? if so I'd love to connect.

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Anonymous wrote:Prepare your child to have no friends for the first couple of months of school. The kids are very cliquey with their elementary school friends. Also if your child is in a higher reading and math group, she/he will have to wait 3 weeks before they track by ability. Depending on your child, this might be upsetting to be in with the slower kids.

Try to get your child into Rise summer camp so they won’t be as overwhelmed by the size.

The school is focused on teaching kids a growth mindset. I think the kids can learn to handle this truly minor "inconvenience" with grace.

You can roll your eyes all you want and feed me the latest academic buzzwords, you clearly are coming from a DCPS feeder. Other schools differentiate earlier. If a student is coming from a school that has had differentiation for a couple of years and is placed in a math class with a student who isn't strong in math, for example struggles with 0 x 2, it will be a shock. If said student is placed in a class were another student scores a 350 on a reading inventory when DC scores 1400, it will be a shock. I say this because it has been a shock for my child. I had to convince DC to hang in until they tracked students. This may not apply to you but it might to others.

Deal tracks for both, much more subtle for English and you wouldn't know about it if it doesn't affect you so stop the snark

I think you are approaching this in an unhelpful way with your child, especially since Deal only tracks for math.