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[quote=Anonymous]This is going to be so dependent on which Center and which LLIV. If you name them, you'll get better answers.  A good place to start is by asking you school how many students in this years third grade opted for Center vs LLIV. If you get 75%+ opting to go Center, you won't have enough left for a strong LLIV class.  If 75%+ stay, then you base school is very good or Center is very weak.  An even split is tougher.

Also, agree that the push for 6th grade Algebra isn't necessarily a great thing. Even assuming that kids are really ready academically/ developmentally to understand and  get a good grounding in Algebra in 6th & geometry in 7th, that puts AP calculus in 10th, multi variable/ linear algebra  in 11th and then what ???    If you go into a stem field, isn't your colleges just  going to make you retake their higher level math?  And if you are humanities, do you need math above multi variable?

In FCPS, if 6th grade Algebra is offered and becomes the new standard for "good" math students (read: TJ Tracked) then some parents will prep their kids to death to qualify them, which risks a shaky per algebra, algebra, geometry foundation. Absent truly extraordinary circumstances, FCPS should be holding firm on 7th grade algebra. [/quote]

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