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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And as a parent of a TJ senior I am telling you it will resolve itself. The entire class won't get a final D on the report card. Your students know what to do - let them talk to the teacher, their counselors, their peers, etc.

But any future TJ parents please learn from this - several of the low grades may be because the students haven't had enough preparatory math. Don't rush your 9th grader into Math 4.  Call or go to ANY meeting with a college admissions officer and they will tell you that accelerating for the sake of accelerating isn't an advantage. [/quote]

As a current TJ parent, I agree with this. Every year, parents push theirs hrouummer school geometry to get them a year ahead and into TJ. And many don't get in.  While I know quite a few kids who came in with just Algebra and are fine. And then they insist their kids take summer RS. So they can take freshman Math 4/5 and sophomore Calc. And the school says, and parents who have BTDT say: starting TJ in math 4 is a terrible idea. It's an incibly hard class and they will not get as good a foundation as the  Math 3 kids. And the parents say, but my kid is a super special snowflake.

And this time every year, the same freshman parents have kids failing math 4, and dropping to math 3 and completely freaking out and seem genuinely shocked.

TJ isn't a race. And for 90% of the kids, no matter how smart, 1st semester freshman year Math 4 bad idea. If they must take summer geometry (and most kids whoget in don't) at least let them take RS 1st semester, so they can ask inoTJ math with the counselors keeping an eye on things, and the extra chances, and more understanding teachers.

I really hope the new math test weeds out these kids whose understanding of math is a mile wide and an inch deep. [/quote]

TJ in 10 years at current immigration levels.

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