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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those kids and more specifically, their parents are trying to get a leg up to get into TJ. TJ admissions has caught on and won't admit all of them.  Most of them would do better by just taking geometry in 8th grade. Then they struggle to do the same in HS.  [b]There are very few math geniuses but everyone wants to look like one.[/b] It's a race to nowhere. [/quote]

Your argument doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t take a math genius to take Algebra 2 in 8th. The math geniuses are not taking Algebra 2 in 8th, they’re probably taking linear algebra or differential equations or something even higher. [/quote]

Splitting hairs about "genius" misses the point.

TJ takes 500 of 25000 students per year: 2%.

That's substantially more than the number of students taking Algebra 2 in 8th and doing well in it. [b]A lot of students (parents) push into that level and don't do well[/b].
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Not sure what you're basing that on. Generally at least three quarters of kids taking Algebra 2 in 8th grade score pass advanced on their SOL and virtually all pass. They are the highest performing of all SOL cohorts.[/quote]

I’m told that at DD’s school (was a TJ feeder), there is not going to be a large enough cohort of kids to have Algebra 2 in 8th. So those kids that are doing Geometry in the summer will be doing Algebra 2 online. This sounds like a really bad idea.[/quote]

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