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[quote=Anonymous][quote]When did Arlington take away the ability to take accelerate algebra? My seventh grader is taking it now, which from everything I’ve seen is the earliest you could take it in any of the APS math pathways.[/quote]

My kid was placed into Algebra I Intensified as a 6th grader in APS (Gunston).  He did very well and got an A in the class.  This class was mostly 7th graders.  He then took Geometry Intensified in 7th grade (with 8th graders), and again got an A.  For 8th grade, Gunston didn't offer Algebra II, so he took an on-line class (foreshadowing!).  He did OK there, and got an A, but he definitely did not learn the material very well.  As a 9th grader at TJHSST, he struggled a bit in math (got a B- in TJ Math 3).  By 10th grade, he was doing well again, and ended up taking Calc AB as a junior and Calc BC as a senior, doing well both years.  He's now a sophomore in college, majoring in math and doing very well.  My lesson from his experience is that too much acceleration wasn't a great plan, and that making sure he had a solid foundation in math was very important. In hindsight, I would have had him start Algebra in 7th grade, not 6th.  But every kid is different.

Overall, I think that its a mistake to prohibit acceleration, but parents and school systems need to be careful not to get the kid out over his/her skis.  The VMPI program tries to address this, but I think parental pressure when the first drafts came out made it much better.  [/quote]

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