PatchChat Live Now: School Board Reopens Honors Discussion
Join us at noon Friday for a discussion with school board member, community advocates about Fairfax County honors course offerings
The Fairfax County School Board will revisit its position next week on high-level class offerings — a discussion it put on hold last summer — so any changes made can be implemented before the 2012-2013 course catalog is printed. Dan Storck (Mount Vernon) asked the school board to reconsider its elimination of some 11th and 12th grade English and Social Studies honors courses this month so the system could implement any curriculum changes in time for the fall semester. "This directly affects students ... it's incumbent upon us to address it at the earliest possible opportunity," member Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield) said at the board's meeting last Thursday. Over the past several years, the school system has phased out honors courses in …
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betsy zolper
8:08 am on Friday, January 20, 2012
Please bring back honors classes in 10th, 11th and 12th grade. It would benefit students of all academic levels. It is very frustrating for a motivated student, who is taking several AP classes, to take a non-honors English class in 11th or 12th grade. Unfortunately in my daughter's 12th grade English class many of the students were not engaged, slept through class and did not turn in homework. … more ›