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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's the school's problem to solve in part because the solution is to take those kids and move them back to a level that's more appropriate, but they get strong parental resistance - and sometimes resistance from the kid who hasn't yet learned how to fail publicly and has a large part of their identity wrapped up in their math advancement. It can be a huge shot to the ego, but the alternative is advanced classes where you have students who are both younger from an age and maturity perspective and also have massive gaps in their comprehension. [/quote]

LCPS had a 82% cutoff to get into algebra in 6th grade, and these kids are generally the best in the class.
However, now they are dropping this and trying to push most kids into taking algebra in 8th grade.[/quote]

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