Algebra 1 - 7th grade

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The superintendent expressed dismay in one of the employee town halls that FCPS doesn’t offer precalculus in middle school (apparently her former district did at all schools). She is very much a fan of acceleration (much to the chagrin of high school math teachers!!)

I absolutely see algebra being the minimum for 8th graders in the next couple years, but I will be shocked if she is on board with holding kids back who are ready to accelerate.

As a high school math teacher I am nervous for what this will look like. Kids are already really struggling to keep up.

Algebra being the minimum is different from algebra being the maximum. I don't think they will ever implement algebra as the minimum, except for maybe a pretend class labeled algebra which is actually prealgebra to keep too many kids from failing.

You're not listening. We are telling you. It is happening. Several schools have already piloted it. They dragged those kids kicking and screaming through the Algebra curriculum in 8th grade. Kids who couldn't do it had to give up electives and after school time to get remediation. Teachers had to bend over backwards killing themselves trying to get these kids to understand it. It went exactly how everyone knew it would. A decent number of kids still weren't successful and had to expunge and retake in 9th grade. The county thinks this is fine because it exposes the kids to Algebra for two years instead of one and eventually all the exposure means they'll "get" it. They don't care that it causes the students and teachers tremendous amounts of undo stress. They don't understand that a kid struggling and failing no matter how hard they work is going to give up, not just sit there and absorb the material and then somehow magically know it when they take the class again in 9th.

Are you talking about this program?

https://www.fcps.edu/node/44416

DP From your link, this sounds like what the other PP described:
"Partner with College Success Programs to launch the Algebra Access Network Improvement Community, a network of five schools that will increase the diverse representation of students who participate and are proficient in Algebra 1 by the end of eighth grade."

Wow, just wow.

This program was feared, opposed, and ridiculed by so many of us for its anti acceleration ideology that prohibits early algebra. Now we learn that this program is also used to overaccelerate those students who would normally take it in 9th.

This just goes to show that liberal ideology serves no one and hurts us all. Not really a surprise but a reminder of the true meaning of "equity."

[Anonymous]

It is calling for a 4% increase in minority kids taking algebra in 8th. This might be percentage points, or just 4%, which would be a few kids.
Either way, not a big deal, especially if the issue is they are putting in more resources to be sure schools can offer algebra in 8th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is calling for a 4% increase in minority kids taking algebra in 8th. This might be percentage points, or just 4%, which would be a few kids.
Either way, not a big deal, especially if the issue is they are putting in more resources to be sure schools can offer algebra in 8th grade.

Ah, but your rational take on this would fall in line with the fear monger above you

"Wow, just wow"

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is calling for a 4% increase in minority kids taking algebra in 8th. This might be percentage points, or just 4%, which would be a few kids.
Either way, not a big deal, especially if the issue is they are putting in more resources to be sure schools can offer algebra in 8th grade.

Ah, but your rational take on this would fall in line with the fear monger above you

"Wow, just wow"

Maybe you didn't follow the facts already outlined in the thread. Go back to where a poster describes unready kids being dragged thru Algebra in 8th.

To put it in terms people with perpetually racial lenses can understand: do you think anyone will be left to take it in 9th if minorities will take it in 8th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is calling for a 4% increase in minority kids taking algebra in 8th. This might be percentage points, or just 4%, which would be a few kids.
Either way, not a big deal, especially if the issue is they are putting in more resources to be sure schools can offer algebra in 8th grade.

Ah, but your rational take on this would fall in line with the fear monger above you

"Wow, just wow"

There has been a whole thread about E3. The fearmongering is justified.