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[quote=Anonymous]Teachers in the county have been saying for years that emphasis on accelerating students in math in the early years causes problems in later years for a large number of students because they don't spend enough time on the basic skills of arithmetic.  Yet instead of listening to what the teachers are and have been saying, we repeatedly get comments such as: the teachers are not being rigorous enough.  Why are people so reluctant to believe what teachers have to say on this subject?

The fact that students taking AP exams are doing well is irrelevant to this issue.  The students doing well on AP exams are not the same students failing the countywide finals.  These are the kids who get the concepts the first time around and don't need additional time with basic arithmetic.  But they also represent a small number of the entire student population.

A public education program should in the first instance serve the majority of the students.  Then focus on the students at the top and bottom of the class.  Somehow we seem to have flipped the system, with people who represent the interests of the minority number of students at the top demanding more resources at the expense of the majority of students.

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