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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the official language:

STATE REQUIREMENT FOR STUDENTS GRADUATING IN 2018 AND LATER: Students graduating in 2018 and later must be enrolled in a math course in each year of high school. This may result in students earning more than 4 credits in math for graduation.[/quote]

As I understand it, the University of Maryland got tired of having to remediate students who passed Algebra 2 (but perhaps didn’t master it), and stopped taking math until they had to take college level math, having forgotten their high school math.

While I agree that the state colleges shouldn’t have to teach high school level classes, it seems like at a certain point, it stops making sense. My kids got 5s on the Calculus BC exam their Sophomore year, testing out of the college math requirements. Then they got 5s on the Stats AP exam, along with taking classes in more advanced math that AP doesn’t have tests for. It seems that once a student has demonstrated college level math, they should be allowed to stop. Even if they decide to take math in college and have forgotten some content in the interim, at worst they’d have to repeat the last class they took, which would be a college level class (which they should do fairly well in, as it would be a refresher and not entirely new content). [/quote]

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