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[quote=Anonymous]Think carefully about this from a social perspective.  Most middle schools don't offer algebra 2 (although the centers often do since many years enough kids do geometry over the summer) but most send kids up to the nearest high school because there are only a small number (you need at least 8 to justify a teacher IME).  That means your 8th grader will be partnered up in class with 10th graders (majority of honors algebra II kids are sophomores).

Transportation is not provided, so if your middle school is adjacent to a high school it's easy enough to walk over, but if it's not you will be responsible for schlepping back and forth, or she will have to take it virtually, which is less than ideal.

Same thing with elementary algebra.  I've taught algebra for 15 years at the middle school level, and only had 1 6th grader in that entire time.  He was from a late start elementary, so he was able to come to 1st period honors algebra and then mom drove him back to his elementary school for the remainder of the day.  If parent transportation hadn't been available, he'd have had to do it online, which is really rough.[/quote]

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