Algebra 2 after summer geometry: online or in person?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid should retake geometry this year, and study Algebra 2 during the year and next summer, and then enroll in precalculus in high school.

You asked for trouble, and you got it. If you don't want it, give it back.

Unless your kid is one of about 5 people in the DMV area in 8th grade, I guarantee you that there are several students with far more advanced math knowledge, who are doing fine with Geometry class in 8th grade (because they don't need the school to drag them through the curriculum).

I never said he is a math genius. You don't need to be to take basic geometry. And he doesn't need to be one of these five. He will be fine with any number of options before him.

The course was taught in person last year.

You don't need to be a math genius to take geometry. But 8th grade Algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 12th. And you don't need to be a math genius for that, but it helps if you don't want a C.

It doesn't matter whether or not it was offered in person last year. It isn't offered this year and was never supposed to have been.

8th grade algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 11th grade! What's the plan then for the kid who is too busy with extra curriculars to to to one class a week?

You don't need to be a genius to learn geometry, but you don't need to be a genius to do Algebra 2 on you own over a year either, and then take precalculus at the highschool with all the other classes.

Oh, our HS offers multivariable calc after calc BC, but I guess not all the FCPS schools do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid should retake geometry this year, and study Algebra 2 during the year and next summer, and then enroll in precalculus in high school.

You asked for trouble, and you got it. If you don't want it, give it back.

Unless your kid is one of about 5 people in the DMV area in 8th grade, I guarantee you that there are several students with far more advanced math knowledge, who are doing fine with Geometry class in 8th grade (because they don't need the school to drag them through the curriculum).

I never said he is a math genius. You don't need to be to take basic geometry. And he doesn't need to be one of these five. He will be fine with any number of options before him.

The course was taught in person last year.

You don't need to be a math genius to take geometry. But 8th grade Algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 12th. And you don't need to be a math genius for that, but it helps if you don't want a C.

It doesn't matter whether or not it was offered in person last year. It isn't offered this year and was never supposed to have been.

8th grade algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 11th grade! What's the plan then for the kid who is too busy with extra curriculars to to to one class a week?

You don't need to be a genius to learn geometry, but you don't need to be a genius to do Algebra 2 on you own over a year either, and then take precalculus at the highschool with all the other classes.

I don't think the highschool would be under any obligation let them take precalculus when they wouldn't have had taken an official algebra 2 course through FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS math teacher:

The school needs at least 8 students to allot a teacher to the course. Students could not register for algebra 2 when course registrations were due in January, so the counselors only just learned who took/completed summer geometry and need to be removed from the geometry they pre registered for. Counselors restarted this past week so you basically got the most efficient response you could have hoped for.

Other options to get your kid algebra 2 without online class:

Ask if there is an algebra 2 class the last period of the day at the high school (assuming Kilmer runs the same a/b schedule the HSs do.) Your child can skip the last block of the day at the MS (12:45 - 2:15) and make it to the last block at the high school (1:15 - 2:45). You will be responsible for transportation. Be aware that your 8th grader will be in class with 9/10/11th graders)

Ask if there is a NVCC course that covers the requirement. There used to be, but I’m not sure there still is. It will be much lower level than A2H in FCPS though.

Ask for the online campus contact and find out if the evening piece is required or just office hours.

High schools usually start an hour or so before middle schools for busses, maybe you can find an early morning class

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS math teacher:

The school needs at least 8 students to allot a teacher to the course. Students could not register for algebra 2 when course registrations were due in January, so the counselors only just learned who took/completed summer geometry and need to be removed from the geometry they pre registered for. Counselors restarted this past week so you basically got the most efficient response you could have hoped for.

Other options to get your kid algebra 2 without online class:

Ask if there is an algebra 2 class the last period of the day at the high school (assuming Kilmer runs the same a/b schedule the HSs do.) Your child can skip the last block of the day at the MS (12:45 - 2:15) and make it to the last block at the high school (1:15 - 2:45). You will be responsible for transportation. Be aware that your 8th grader will be in class with 9/10/11th graders)

Ask if there is a NVCC course that covers the requirement. There used to be, but I’m not sure there still is. It will be much lower level than A2H in FCPS though.

Ask for the online campus contact and find out if the evening piece is required or just office hours.

High schools usually start an hour or so before middle schools for busses, maybe you can find an early morning class

Not in FCPS, MS start before HS. My kids HS starts an hour before his HS will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS math teacher:

The school needs at least 8 students to allot a teacher to the course. Students could not register for algebra 2 when course registrations were due in January, so the counselors only just learned who took/completed summer geometry and need to be removed from the geometry they pre registered for. Counselors restarted this past week so you basically got the most efficient response you could have hoped for.

Other options to get your kid algebra 2 without online class:

Ask if there is an algebra 2 class the last period of the day at the high school (assuming Kilmer runs the same a/b schedule the HSs do.) Your child can skip the last block of the day at the MS (12:45 - 2:15) and make it to the last block at the high school (1:15 - 2:45). You will be responsible for transportation. Be aware that your 8th grader will be in class with 9/10/11th graders)

Ask if there is a NVCC course that covers the requirement. There used to be, but I’m not sure there still is. It will be much lower level than A2H in FCPS though.

Ask for the online campus contact and find out if the evening piece is required or just office hours.

High schools usually start an hour or so before middle schools for busses, maybe you can find an early morning class

Not in FCPS. Better option would be to try to find a HS with a last period Algebra II. The kid should have a good 30 minutes to get from middle to high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid should retake geometry this year, and study Algebra 2 during the year and next summer, and then enroll in precalculus in high school.

You asked for trouble, and you got it. If you don't want it, give it back.

Unless your kid is one of about 5 people in the DMV area in 8th grade, I guarantee you that there are several students with far more advanced math knowledge, who are doing fine with Geometry class in 8th grade (because they don't need the school to drag them through the curriculum).

I never said he is a math genius. You don't need to be to take basic geometry. And he doesn't need to be one of these five. He will be fine with any number of options before him.

The course was taught in person last year.

You don't need to be a math genius to take geometry. But 8th grade Algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 12th. And you don't need to be a math genius for that, but it helps if you don't want a C.

It doesn't matter whether or not it was offered in person last year. It isn't offered this year and was never supposed to have been.

8th grade algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 11th grade! What's the plan then for the kid who is too busy with extra curriculars to to to one class a week?

You don't need to be a genius to learn geometry, but you don't need to be a genius to do Algebra 2 on you own over a year either, and then take precalculus at the highschool with all the other classes.

Oh, our HS offers multivariable calc after calc BC, but I guess not all the FCPS schools do.

Differential equations comes after multivariable.

Algebra II in 8th
Precalc in 9th
Calc BC in 10th
Multivariable in 11th
Differential in 12th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS math teacher:

The school needs at least 8 students to allot a teacher to the course. Students could not register for algebra 2 when course registrations were due in January, so the counselors only just learned who took/completed summer geometry and need to be removed from the geometry they pre registered for. Counselors restarted this past week so you basically got the most efficient response you could have hoped for.

Other options to get your kid algebra 2 without online class:

Ask if there is an algebra 2 class the last period of the day at the high school (assuming Kilmer runs the same a/b schedule the HSs do.) Your child can skip the last block of the day at the MS (12:45 - 2:15) and make it to the last block at the high school (1:15 - 2:45). You will be responsible for transportation. Be aware that your 8th grader will be in class with 9/10/11th graders)

Ask if there is a NVCC course that covers the requirement. There used to be, but I’m not sure there still is. It will be much lower level than A2H in FCPS though.

Ask for the online campus contact and find out if the evening piece is required or just office hours.

You have absolutely no way to know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid should retake geometry this year, and study Algebra 2 during the year and next summer, and then enroll in precalculus in high school.

You asked for trouble, and you got it. If you don't want it, give it back.

Unless your kid is one of about 5 people in the DMV area in 8th grade, I guarantee you that there are several students with far more advanced math knowledge, who are doing fine with Geometry class in 8th grade (because they don't need the school to drag them through the curriculum).

I never said he is a math genius. You don't need to be to take basic geometry. And he doesn't need to be one of these five. He will be fine with any number of options before him.

The course was taught in person last year.

You don't need to be a math genius to take geometry. But 8th grade Algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 12th. And you don't need to be a math genius for that, but it helps if you don't want a C.

It doesn't matter whether or not it was offered in person last year. It isn't offered this year and was never supposed to have been.

8th grade algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 11th grade! What's the plan then for the kid who is too busy with extra curriculars to to to one class a week?

You don't need to be a genius to learn geometry, but you don't need to be a genius to do Algebra 2 on you own over a year either, and then take precalculus at the highschool with all the other classes.

Oh, our HS offers multivariable calc after calc BC, but I guess not all the FCPS schools do.

Differential equations comes after multivariable.

Algebra II in 8th
Precalc in 9th
Calc BC in 10th
Multivariable in 11th
Differential in 12th.

Yes, that's what I was saying. It's not dual enrollment until AFTER multivar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid should retake geometry this year, and study Algebra 2 during the year and next summer, and then enroll in precalculus in high school.

You asked for trouble, and you got it. If you don't want it, give it back.

Unless your kid is one of about 5 people in the DMV area in 8th grade, I guarantee you that there are several students with far more advanced math knowledge, who are doing fine with Geometry class in 8th grade (because they don't need the school to drag them through the curriculum).

I never said he is a math genius. You don't need to be to take basic geometry. And he doesn't need to be one of these five. He will be fine with any number of options before him.

The course was taught in person last year.

You don't need to be a math genius to take geometry. But 8th grade Algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 12th. And you don't need to be a math genius for that, but it helps if you don't want a C.

It doesn't matter whether or not it was offered in person last year. It isn't offered this year and was never supposed to have been.

8th grade algebra 2 is the path to dual enrollment differential equations in 11th grade! What's the plan then for the kid who is too busy with extra curriculars to to to one class a week?

You don't need to be a genius to learn geometry, but you don't need to be a genius to do Algebra 2 on you own over a year either, and then take precalculus at the highschool with all the other classes.

Oh, our HS offers multivariable calc after calc BC, but I guess not all the FCPS schools do.

Differential equations comes after multivariable.

Algebra II in 8th
Precalc in 9th
Calc BC in 10th
Multivariable in 11th
Differential in 12th.

No it doesn't. Calc 2 is the prerequisite for diff eq.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS math teacher:

The school needs at least 8 students to allot a teacher to the course. Students could not register for algebra 2 when course registrations were due in January, so the counselors only just learned who took/completed summer geometry and need to be removed from the geometry they pre registered for. Counselors restarted this past week so you basically got the most efficient response you could have hoped for.

Other options to get your kid algebra 2 without online class:

Ask if there is an algebra 2 class the last period of the day at the high school (assuming Kilmer runs the same a/b schedule the HSs do.) Your child can skip the last block of the day at the MS (12:45 - 2:15) and make it to the last block at the high school (1:15 - 2:45). You will be responsible for transportation. Be aware that your 8th grader will be in class with 9/10/11th graders)

Ask if there is a NVCC course that covers the requirement. There used to be, but I’m not sure there still is. It will be much lower level than A2H in FCPS though.

Ask for the online campus contact and find out if the evening piece is required or just office hours.

Geez, we need more posters like you.
So many people here are treating this parent like a criminal.
They are on the AAP board so they couldn't be against the idea of academic advancement, right?
The parent is not acting entitled or saying her kid is better than your kid, so I don't get it.

[Anonymous]

Can it be any nearby high school or only a high school into which Kilmer feeds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can it be any nearby high school or only a high school into which Kilmer feeds?

It could be any FCPS HS, but the county will not provide transportation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can it be any nearby high school or only a high school into which Kilmer feeds?

It could be any FCPS HS, but the county will not provide transportation.

But FCPS picks it, not OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can it be any nearby high school or only a high school into which Kilmer feeds?

It could be any FCPS HS, but the county will not provide transportation.

But FCPS picks it, not OP.

They do?

[Anonymous]

An update: after a meeting with the principal and head counselor where the parents of rising 8th graders made their concerns known, the school made the decision to offer Algebra 2 in person this year. A great outcome and much appreciation for the flexibility and openness KMS showed. It really is a very good school.