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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish you good luck finding an actual answer to this question. MCPS is very disorganized about this and you can ask 5 ppl and get 5 different answers. It’s a different process and cut off for each different school, which I personally think is confusing, inequitable and unnecessary. I’d start by contacting the math department head at the specific middle school where your child is headed. I imagine they’ll look a what level math your child completed at the previous school and may administer a MAP test and/or solicit a teacher recommendation. [/quote]

Sure there are a lot of uninformed parents but there are recognized diagnostics and guidelines as a PP pointed out.[/quote]

Every school has different rules some MS allow it and some don't.  OP isn't necessarily asking about Algebra and asking about placement.  They will look at the child's grades, and test scores and talk to the teacher/parent to make the decision.  There is no consistency in each of the schools and the poster says that because TMPS doesn't allow Algebra in 6th, so no Silver Spring schools do is making stuff up. We were given a registration form and had to have the ES teacher sign off saying yes and that was it.[/quote]

I don't understand why central office cannot create a transparent policy that applies to all MS.[/quote]

They don't have any transparency or equity in anything so why is this any different?  They should offer the same classes, offer real honors classes and have the same standards at every school but they don't.  They also need to increase the magnet programs to offer one at every school or at least gifted classes in Math and English at every school (though for English being given more than two online books a year might help too).

We don't know what classes OP is asking about.  Someone here just jumped on the Algebra bandwagon.  There are at least a handful of schools allowing it and not just the W zones.[/quote]

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