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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's up with the wildly different impressions of what math is offered at Deal!? As a parent of an elementary schooler who I plan to send to Deal in 4 years, I just went from shock/horror that algebra I isn't offered until 9th grade (which would be far behind what I had as an attendee of a mediocre public school in the early 00s) to shock/awe that a 10th grader could take calc bc (far and above what my mediocre public school offered). I know sometimes people shitpost or just have no idea what they are talking about, but I am disturbed at the total lack of agreement on this![/quote]

I don't see any confusion over math at Deal. Kids come in and with a straightforward path to take 6th grade math, 7th grade math, and 8th grade math in their 3 years at Deal. Kids test at the beginning of the year in 6th grade and those that test high are placed into 7th grade math in 6th grade.  Those kids on an accelerated track would take 7th, 8th, and algebra 1 in their 3 years at Deal. There are opportunities to do summer math acceleration for kids who test into it in the summers between 6th-7th and 7th-8th. Based on level of advancement, kids can take geometry in 8th grade.  If a child is even more advanced, there are opportunities for them to do so - my kids were not among them so I didn't pay much attention to those details. All of this gets explained at the various feeder school chats, open houses, and orientations.

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Exactly. The crucial points are (1) the vast majority of 8th graders take either Math 8 or Algebra I, and (2) if you start on the lower track there are multiple opportunities to join the Algebra I track (this is, in fact, the main purpose of SMAC). Further acceleration is totally optional and only undertaken by a minority of kids.[/quote]

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