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[quote=Anonymous]What previous poster said was accurate.  I don’t really know what criteria they used but I got a call from math resource teacher at our school for DC to attend the 6th grade AAP math class in the fall of 5th grade.  As far as I know this was not something a parent could request because I never did.  At our school you can take the middle school bus in the morning  to get to MS and a bus provided transport  back to his elementary school to start the ES day.  But as with anything else I think each school handles things differently.  I have heard of other schools allowing kids to take Algebra I online at their ES school so they don’t have such a long day but I was happy DC would be in an actual classroom.  It did make for a long day and I think this scheduling would only work if you are at a center school since these schools have the latest start times.

On another note, I think you pretty much have an idea of whether your kid is on this track or not.  My DC had been receiving math pullouts with the resource teacher prior to 5th grade.  I think they probably use this time to evaluate the kids and look at test scores to invite the kids to join the grade ahead.  It is never a big cohort.  It varies year to year but at our center school it is always fewer than 10 kids.  I think most school like to keep the criteria a mystery so they don’t have pushy parents trying to push the kids up.

This worked out really well for my DC and he has not had any issues being pushed this far ahead but it could be different for each kid.  When I asked what made the kids who got moved up successful the resource teacher said it never had to do with their math ability but whether they had the maturity to handle this schedule, to be with older kids and be ok with the heightened expectations for middle schoolers.  My DC has no desire for TJ  and being additional year ahead in math will not really make any difference in his future.  So don’t feel like this is something you have to push for.  It can only harm them if they don’t do well.[/quote]

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