Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 23:21     Subject: Re:Compacted 4/5 math

Is there anyone here with a third grader who circumvented 2.0 to be placed into an accelerated 4th grade class this year?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 22:48     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

My DC is accepted to HGC and qualified for compacted 4/5 math. Almost all the kids who are going to HGC received the score of 48 (maximum).
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 22:26     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

13% countywide (in which case, how do you know?) or your school?

It is to be expected that the "very few" will cluster in some schools and be scarce at others. But it would go against everything Starr has said about the "very few" if there were a full class in every school, and it will never fly with parents/parent advocates if it is all or nothing (either a full class or not offered at all.)

Stay tuned.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 22:24     Subject: Re:Compacted 4/5 math

Bradley Hills, today.

Has anyone outside the Whitman/Walter Johnson clusters received letters?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 22:20     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

13% of 3rd graders made the cutoff benchmark score.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 22:02     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

It stands to reason that MCPS would want a full 4/5 class in each school. If less than a full class, then the school would be using the resource (a teacher) on just a few kids. That won't fly in MCPS. I would think that might mean that schools would have either a full 4/5 class or maybe no 4/5 class. I just can't imagine MCPS allowing a math teacher to teach, say, 5 or 6 kids this advanced math while the rest of the kids all crowd into another math class.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 21:06     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

MCPS says very few kids will qualify. I wonder if that is true.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 20:20     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

Is this MCPS solution to getting around 2.0? If so I'm feeling a little better about 2.0.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 19:40     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

What percentage (average?) of 3rd graders would have qualified?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 15:18     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

Carderock Springs. Yesterday.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 14:57     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

Somerset notified yesterday.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 12:02     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

We got it for Wyngate. Our kid qualified, so don't know about non-qualifiers.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 11:09     Subject: Re:Compacted 4/5 math

If you received a notification, would you mind posting the name of your school so we can keep track of what schools have already notified? Thanks.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 11:06     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

We got the letter, but my DC did make the 4/5 math, so I don't know.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2013 10:59     Subject: Compacted 4/5 math

Anonymous wrote:We got a form letter yesterday from our school. Letter states that next year there will be 4/5 math and regular 4th grade math. It tells you whether or not your child reached the threshold to be placed in 4/5 math. Looks like there was a test (max. score was, I think, 48). Tells you how well your child did out of that 48. I think the letter said that the threshold was 33 out of 48 (or something close to that).

Not sure how many at our school reached the threshold.

Do you get this letter even if the child does not make it to 4/5 math?