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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have one kid in a magnet and one kid in our home school. Kid in home school was channeled into higher level classes than I thought kid could handle. I asked to have kid dropped down to on-level class in one subject and was told kid should stay in advanced class because starting the following year, the school wasn’t even going to offer the on-level version. We’re not having the experience you’re describing, and we’re a race that I’m guessing you think schools are trying to impede.[/quote]

Yeah, I think our HS is the opposite, too.

My kid says lots of students get talked into taking IB classes, and they’re not really prepared for the workload, or they don’t have the foundational skills to succeed without a huge struggle.

I’m not clear on what prerequisites OP thinks their kid should be able to skip, though? And what magnet programs allow students to skip foundational prerequisite classes entirely? I thought most simply compacted and accelerated the material, rather than skipping entire courses in the standard sequence. [/quote]

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