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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is that not all students should take math at an accelerated and honors level. That is why the school has three levels of math courses. Parents cannot except that their child is perhaps not capable to succeed in the highest levels so they want the school to water down the honors level program. [/quote

That's not the issue. Some children, regardless of intellect, are not naturally gifted at math. They go to school in order to learn it. Potomac simply refuses to teach those children math, prohibits them from taking an honors or higher level in math, thereby locking them out of any top colleges, despite their intelligence, hard work, and high performance in other classes. One of my kids was like that. Incredibly smart. Begged their way into honors level Pre-calc because they only got a B+ their freshman year. A horrible young woman, who had only an undergraduate degree from a very low ranking party school, was the teacher then and she was awful. She had no idea how to teach the class-because they basically don't teach it. Was degrading to my child, bringing her to tears many times. No other course was ever like this, my daughter had As in advanced classes otherwise. Fortunately, that teacher is gone, but it is still very indicative of this very lopsided way of teaching math at Potomac. [/quote]

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