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Parents urge board to rethink new middle-school honors placement rules, say changes came midyear
Summary
Multiple parents and a teacher told the board the district changed honors-placement criteria midyear, requiring higher benchmarks or an 85 average to remain in honors and causing students to lose placement and confidence.
Several parents and one teacher told the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District Board of Education that recent changes to middle-school honors placement were applied after students had already begun their courses and have harmed students— confidence.
A parent who identified herself during public comment said students were told early in middle school what benchmarks they needed, then the rules were changed midyear. "We can't just change the rules in the middle of the game," she said, adding that students who had been progressing…
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