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TJ teachers say the same things, mostly about their students who are entering in Pre-Calc or above in the 9th grade. There are exceptions, of course, but it doesn't take them long to separate the "gifted" from the "advanced" - the latter of which is not really a compliment.[/quote]

Sure, but why is that necessarily the school's problem to solve?  I'd rather leave the system as is, so the gifted kids can get much needed advancement, even if one side effect is that kids who chose to push ahead end up struggling.  For TJ kids, I bet the majority of kids who enter in pre-Calc and then struggle are the ones who did summer geometry to get ahead.  For the most part, these are kids who were not smart or advanced enough to be skipped ahead to 6th grade Algebra, and then massively shortchanged their understanding of geometry.  [/quote]

It is part of the problem because parents are aiming for these classes so that their kids can apply for TJ. Then the kids take the test prep classes so that they can do well on the test. They are accepted into TJ and end up not having the fundamentals that they really need, mainly because they were pushed ahead by their parents with the goal of getting accepted at TJ.

There is a balance between supporting your kids interests and strengths and pushing to advance your kid. I think many people are worried that the use of Mathnasium and Kumon and other programs are not helping kids if it is giving the appearance of  being advanced when they are not. We did AoPS this year with our Third grader and I was impressed with the class. I don't know if they would tell a parent that their kid needed to be in a lower grade or would not do well in the program. There were a couple of kids who I heard the Teacher suggest they should stay online after class so that they could go over the material some more because the child was not understanding the material. I thought that was a good thing for the child but I wonder what they tell the parents at the end of the year since it was the same kids over the course of the year.

The ideal is that kids are allowed to advance at a pace that makes sense for them as long as they have really learned the material. [/quote]

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