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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's hard to get on an offramp.  Around the class of 2025 MCPS started accelerating the majority of the kids.    Now many are struggling in pre-calc and calculus and having to get tutors to keep up.  [/quote]

Officially, MCPS offers off-ramps every year in middle school, and allows repeating 8th grade Alg1/Geom/Alg2 in 9th, and allows course retakes in hight school, and offers 2-year Algebra 2, as well as 2 levels of Stats and 3 levels of Calculus 1.
The main "problem" with the pathways is that a student might switch from Honors one year to non-Honors the next, instead of doing both Honors but a year later, which slightly decreases weighted GPA.

Do you know someone who requested an off-ramp and get rejected?[/quote]
What I see is kids that stayed on the ramp all through MS and now in HS there is little option other than taking a non-honors class which affects weighted GPA as you mentioned.

There are many parents pushing their kids to be in the highest class possible in MS without thinking of the long term impacts.   Clearly some kids belong on this path and some don't. [/quote]

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