What is considered an advanced or competitive math course pathway

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing this is a real post from a high school kid. A freshman taking pre-calc in 9th grade is obviously on an advanced and super competitive math pathway.

It seems more like a question a mom would post.

Nah I’m a child but I was asking this cause I think this is average if not below average at poolesville

Many WPES kids had the option to accelerate so they would've already taken A2 or Precalc by 9th grade.

Aaaaannnd...there it is, folks! Who had around 8 AM the following day in the pool? Maximum exposure for our resident "WPES" math troll after allowing a few gullible folks to weigh in on the matter so as not to seem directly connected...

I was hoping others would see the "hskid" OP for the setup-identity for this poster's reply that it was, just ignoring the troll, who, I suspect, also recently tried to resurrect a couple of years-old threads for the same purpose. There are always a few, though, perhaps new to the board, who end up weighing in. Sigh.

Please feel free to ignore this thread.

Bro what💀💀💀, I didn’t understand your reply but idk what WPES is🤷🏽‍♂️

WPES are the wealthy potomac schools that offer math enrichment unavailable elsewhere. I think some parents are afraid they'll lose this if word gets out.

Aaaannnd...more from the same "WPES" poster who likes to create a slanted picture to gin up discontent. Whether they are driven by a sense of smug entitlement being there, a general desire to see all such advancement halted, a hope that it will improve their activity as a real estate agent in the area (my favorite) or some other reason is uncertain.

There is at least one school, CSES, where there has been administration support of generally family-led initiatives to accelerate students in math, providing space and facilitating cohorted offering of classes beyond Math 5/6 at the school. However, affording an ES student class beyond Math 5/6 is not exclusive to that school or the area. It is, however, variably accepted/supported across the county, and there is neither a clear rubric for advancing such a student, nor clear communication of its availability, nor differential funding afforded to schools to make that happen, and these are the areas that should be addressed so that students' needs might be met equitably.

But we don't hear that from that poster. Their aim, again, is to troll, perhaps with the confusion of the reference to the fictional "WPES" to detract from advocacy.

L yapper

Yeah. The lie is more important, anyway

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't get Alg 1 in 6th, you're behind.

Or so DCUM assures me.

Seriously. My middle school son is only one year ahead in math. I guess he can kiss any selective college goodbye.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing this is a real post from a high school kid. A freshman taking pre-calc in 9th grade is obviously on an advanced and super competitive math pathway.

It seems more like a question a mom would post.

Nah I’m a child but I was asking this cause I think this is average if not below average at poolesville

Many WPES kids had the option to accelerate so they would've already taken A2 or Precalc by 9th grade.

Aaaaannnd...there it is, folks! Who had around 8 AM the following day in the pool? Maximum exposure for our resident "WPES" math troll after allowing a few gullible folks to weigh in on the matter so as not to seem directly connected...

I was hoping others would see the "hskid" OP for the setup-identity for this poster's reply that it was, just ignoring the troll, who, I suspect, also recently tried to resurrect a couple of years-old threads for the same purpose. There are always a few, though, perhaps new to the board, who end up weighing in. Sigh.

Please feel free to ignore this thread.

Bro what💀💀💀, I didn’t understand your reply but idk what WPES is🤷🏽‍♂️

WPES are the wealthy potomac schools that offer math enrichment unavailable elsewhere. I think some parents are afraid they'll lose this if word gets out.

Our school never offered this but many of DC's classmates at SMCS were from these schools so are very advanced.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing this is a real post from a high school kid. A freshman taking pre-calc in 9th grade is obviously on an advanced and super competitive math pathway.

It seems more like a question a mom would post.

Nah I’m a child but I was asking this cause I think this is average if not below average at poolesville

Many WPES kids had the option to accelerate so they would've already taken A2 or Precalc by 9th grade.

Aaaaannnd...there it is, folks! Who had around 8 AM the following day in the pool? Maximum exposure for our resident "WPES" math troll after allowing a few gullible folks to weigh in on the matter so as not to seem directly connected...

I was hoping others would see the "hskid" OP for the setup-identity for this poster's reply that it was, just ignoring the troll, who, I suspect, also recently tried to resurrect a couple of years-old threads for the same purpose. There are always a few, though, perhaps new to the board, who end up weighing in. Sigh.

Please feel free to ignore this thread.

Bro what💀💀💀, I didn’t understand your reply but idk what WPES is🤷🏽‍♂️

A group of wealthy schools in western moco typically offer more opportunities for math enrichment than is available elsewhere in the county. Since admission to the more elite programs like SMCS is based on MAP which measures exposure, this gives their children an unfair advantage over students from the less wealthy schools. Basically, it's just another way people rig the game in their favor.

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Anonymous wrote:Bro what💀💀💀, I didn’t understand your reply but idk what WPES is🤷🏽‍♂️

A group of wealthy schools in western moco typically offer more opportunities for math enrichment than is available elsewhere in the county. Since admission to the more elite programs like SMCS is based on MAP which measures exposure, this gives their children an unfair advantage over students from the less wealthy schools. Basically, it's just another way people rig the game in their favor.

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Anonymous wrote:Bro what💀💀💀, I didn’t understand your reply but idk what WPES is🤷🏽‍♂️

A group of wealthy schools in western moco typically offer more opportunities for math enrichment than is available elsewhere in the county. Since admission to the more elite programs like SMCS is based on MAP which measures exposure, this gives their children an unfair advantage over students from the less wealthy schools. Basically, it's just another way people rig the game in their favor.

Yes! It's how kids get Algebra 1 in 5th grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Bro what💀💀💀, I didn’t understand your reply but idk what WPES is🤷🏽‍♂️

A group of wealthy schools in western moco typically offer more opportunities for math enrichment than is available elsewhere in the county. Since admission to the more elite programs like SMCS is based on MAP which measures exposure, this gives their children an unfair advantage over students from the less wealthy schools. Basically, it's just another way people rig the game in their favor.

Yes! It's how kids get Algebra 1 in 5th grade.

My kid at TPMS Lottery Magnet has a bunch of 6th-grade friends in honors geometry. This really goes on.

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Anonymous wrote:Bro what💀💀💀, I didn’t understand your reply but idk what WPES is🤷🏽‍♂️

A group of wealthy schools in western moco typically offer more opportunities for math enrichment than is available elsewhere in the county. Since admission to the more elite programs like SMCS is based on MAP which measures exposure, this gives their children an unfair advantage over students from the less wealthy schools. Basically, it's just another way people rig the game in their favor.

Yes! It's how kids get Algebra 1 in 5th grade.

My kid at TPMS Lottery Magnet has a bunch of 6th-grade friends in honors geometry. This really goes on.

Most of them are from DCC schools which tend to accelerate more because anyone advanced is that much further advanced than peers as opposed to W schools where everyone is "advanced" so no need for them to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Bro what💀💀💀, I didn’t understand your reply but idk what WPES is🤷🏽‍♂️

A group of wealthy schools in western moco typically offer more opportunities for math enrichment than is available elsewhere in the county. Since admission to the more elite programs like SMCS is based on MAP which measures exposure, this gives their children an unfair advantage over students from the less wealthy schools. Basically, it's just another way people rig the game in their favor.

Yes! It's how kids get Algebra 1 in 5th grade.

My kid at TPMS Lottery Magnet has a bunch of 6th-grade friends in honors geometry. This really goes on.

Most of them are from DCC schools which tend to accelerate more because anyone advanced is that much further advanced than peers as opposed to W schools where everyone is "advanced" so no need for them to do it.

It's also not a bunch. It's 1.

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What is the point? Where do these kids end up for college and what’s their major? Some of this is so unnecessary.

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Aside from pacing, is SMCS Precalculus the same content, work, exams as Honors Algebra 2 + Precalculus, or different. If it's different, what are the particular differences?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point? Where do these kids end up for college and what’s their major? Some of this is so unnecessary.

MIT, Harvard, Stanford, CMU, etc.

Math, Physics, Engineering, CS