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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The larger K-12 schools (GDS, Sidwell, NCS, StAs, Holton) have option for 7th grade algebra.  The smaller do not. The publics mostly have the 7th grade algebra option, however, MCPS have recently realized they (and pushy parents) had been putting far too many kids in 7th grade algebra that weren't ready and ended up having large gaps in their knowledge/mastery.  Really vast majority of kids are not ready for algebra in 7th (and are not really going to be appropriate for multivariate calc in 12th and BC Calc in 11th) unless they are going to be math/engineering majors places like MIT.  My DD went to a small K-8th and thus was in calc in 12th because in algebra in 8th  not 7th, and she is a STEM major at HYPS school, and doing very well, really the obsession with acceleration is all about the parents most of the time[/quote]

Agreed. In addition, do you really want to take SATs junior year on material you may or may not have mastered in 7th and 8th grade? Three years is a long time.
The gaps are enormous, as well, and the kids come to high school being able to solve an equation,  but can't add fractions, do long division, do percentages etc. 
They pay the price when they get further into math and get turned off when they are behind the other kids.[/quote]

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