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[quote=Anonymous]This is idiotic. It's like suggesting a kid take Spanish 101 and 201 at the same time. My kids have taken both courses. There is some overlap in the first weeks but then Math8 teaches the stuff that one needs to do well in Algebra 1. How does DCPS come up with this stuff? I'm sure that what happened is that something is messed up with the number of kids they have at each level of math and so they're pulling this student to get the grade's math spread where they want it. I.e. they need (for bragging rights? for staffing purposes? for some sort of accreditation?) 20% of the grade on track to do geometry in 8th and they only have 12% so they're moving up kids with this stupidity. Parents beware. This is not great for your kid's learning. Clear evidence that at DCPS any individual student's learning be dammed. They are looking at their grade cohort and could care less about your kid. [/quote]
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