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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if our mathy 6th graders become decide they want to major in history and go to law school down the road, is it going to look bad if they stop taking math after sophomore year? Or will they now be forced to take multi var?

Our assigned high school is an IB school and does not offer AP stats or the option to slow down the sequence with multiple levels of calculus, it is 2 years of IB and then...nothing unless we pursue dual enrollment.

It's hard to know who our kids will be in 5-6 years.[/quote]

I have a sibling who graduated from TJ with the minimum math (Calc AB) and was a successful philosophy major and lawyer. But he was able to do a lot of the slowing down on the math track, even there, that it sounds like your kid can't.[/quote]

I think this is going to have a ton of waterfall effects. If we are sending 50-100 super accelerated kids to every middle school, we now need algebra 2 courses at all middle schools (or maybe only at the center schools and tell families they must go there to access it?).  Then we need multiple years of advanced high school courses beyond the current calculus and AP offerings.

The issue is high school teachers aren't certified to teach the dual enrollment classes. I teach at an FCPS high school and we are running into huge problems because in order to be a dual enrollment teacher through NVCC you need a masters *in your subject*. Most of us have undergrad degrees in math, but our masters are in education. So is FCPS going to pay for teachers to get masters degrees in math? Pay for kids to take advanced math off campus? Leave it up to the families to figure it out? This gets $$$, there aren't scholarships for 1 off classes...is continuing the math sequence only for wealthy families?

Just so many things are going to have to change because of a plan that was seemingly thrown together in a few weeks.

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