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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the obsession on this board with taking Cal by 10th grade. I was always good at math, but I didn't take calculus until I was a senior in high school. And I got into an ivy league school where I graduated with honors. My kids are younger so I'm sure there's plenty to say about DC middle schools and high schools that I don't understand, but I truly don't understand why this is something people harp on here.[/quote]

Once your kids are older you will understand. [/quote]

+1.  Math 20 years ago is nothing like math today.  Cal in 12 th then was advance, not so today.
Same with college admittance.  If you are going to any decent school at all for math, engineering, science, etc you only get to Cal by senior year, you are at the bottom. it’s a basic requirement.  Other kids will be ahead and taking it easy in college while you will not.

The end. [/quote]

But taking it easy in college will cost the actual last few years of their childhood.

Some families will do fine letting their older now adult children actually work to master the new to them math they will encounter in college.

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So you want your kid to be at a huge disadvantage and potentially struggle to keep up in college, rather then be prepared and on same level as their classmates?

There is no cost when the math is not hard.  This is what you don’t get.  These kids are bored to death and need more.  They can and want more.

BTW if you want to go to medicine or really good PHD after college, you absolutely cannot afford to not do well your 1st year and hope to make it up later.  [/quote]

My kids are really good at math. That's why we are using this time to shore up things they aren't naturally good at. I don't want them to be one dimensional.

Are they bored sometime? Maybe? But they've been busy enough outside of school.

I've taken some of the classes they'll take in college and I think they will be able to take the classes in stride. They have good habits in math and school in general.[/quote]

You realize it’s not one or the other.  If your kids school could offer them enough challenge with advance classes, it would cost you no time.  That is the point.  They are learning and being challenged in school. It doesn’t sound like it is the case right now for you.  You could still spend your time with other stuff with your kids.

Being good is also relative.  Being good in DCPS is not the same as being good at a magnet in MCPS.

The playing field is much higher in college and I wouldn’t be so confident that your kid is going to do well when the competition is much more if they go to a good school.

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+1. PP does not understand just how bad math instruction is in DCPS. That said I am not convinced it is all that much better anywhere. I’m actually pretty close to just giving up at focusing on my DS (current 8th grader) doing what is necessary to get decent math grades as opposed to actual intellectual challenge. It helps that math isn’t his strongest subject and he was never going to be on a STEM track career-wise, so ultimately, a poor math education impacts him less. The kids that it is MORE important for are actually the “mathy” kids who need math for their higher education and career success. Those are the ones whose parents need to understand just how very bad math instruction is. Meanwhile I will focus more on writing and research skills since that is my DS’s path. [/quote]

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