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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you were a kid, college wasn’t an assumption.  Now, more kids are going to college, so there is a push to make things more academic.  
You see it as not academic, yet in FCPS and MCPS and Arlington there is a push to get all 8th graders to take algebra and have 6th graders take it as well. 
More kids are taking AP classes than when you were a kid.

So basically, you perspective is skewed and things are more academic so parents want their kids to get even further ahead and they use tutoring to help. [/quote]

OP. Thanks for the reply.

Where I was living when I grew up, most kids went to college. What I see (and colleagues confirm this in their kids schools) today in APS and FCPS is kids receiving less academics in elementary than I had. Spelling and science and grammar and writing an essay are each examples where content has been heavily watered down now. Reading scores are down nationwide (and even were going down pre-pandemic, sonthat is not the cause) according to NAEP. "Intro Algebra", which now is renamed "Algebra 1",  starting in 8th grade is what most kids had when and where I grew up.

Someone or some group might be pushing for Algebra in 6th, but it is not (yet) actually happening in the schools near me. [/quote]

Algebra in 6th is happening all over FCPS in elementary schools.  I took enough APs to enter college as a sophomore and took algebra 1 in 7th grade along with 10 other kids out of my middle school.  My kid’s middle school has TONS of kids taking algebra in 7th.  I had to take a year off of math in high school because they didn’t offer a high enough math as we only went up to AP calc AB.  Kids have more offerings in math and can go higher.  They also have a wider variety of APs and can start taking APs freshman year.

I didn’t write 5 paragraphs until 5th grade and my kids were starting in 3rd.  I am just not seeing the ‘degradation” of academics you are.  Maybe you are not seeing what happens after elementary and so are getting frustrated?  I was upset my kids didn’t have spelling homework, but they have been fine and learned it anyway. [/quote]

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