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[quote=Anonymous]In our experience these schools do not accelerate kids into algebra 1 before 7th grade (which is already at least one year accelerated from even ending up in calculus in 12th grade), they are simply too small to be able to figure out how to schedule one or two kids to do so, because the rest of their day is then compeltely out of synch with the rest of their grade.  GDS has been known to do it in middle school (two kids were taking calculus at the high school while in middle school, but these were also kids who graduated early to go to MIT and placed highly in international math competitions, so literally one in a million kids). For most math competent and very mature kids, 7th grade is soon enough to do algebra as long as the lower school teachers give lots of extra more challenging problems to the kids who are finishing the normal work early.  By 7th they all group (in this list that is, smaller schools such as Sheridan and Lowell can't easily offer even algebra in 7th). Even public schools that I know of that are huge don;t offer algebra in 6th grade at least in MoCo.  For the ability to have more advanced courses in high school, need to be at TJ or Blair or a big public school in MoCo, not smaller privates that just can;'t offer beyond multivariate calculus for the kids that began algebra in 7th. [/quote]

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