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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Online can work out fine if there’s support available, but in that case it’s turns into private tutoring. I am curious to what specific issues would a 8th grade encounter in a class with 10th graders that someone would have to be careful about.

Agree that transportation can be a pain, which makes the online option more appealing.[/quote]

Well, the 10th-11th graders in the Alg II class are not going to be the “honors” student teenagers.  [b]There will be the typical swearing, inappropriate jokes, kids sleeping, kids playing with their phones, kids on YouTube when they shouldn’t be, teacher being interrupted.  [/b]

But more concerning to me as a parent would be the transportation and time missed at their home school.  For one, the schedules aren’t going to line up exactly.  Between leaving class, waiting to be picked up, the commute to the high school, actual class, waiting to be picked back up, commute back, etc. she will be missing a significant part of classes at her middle school every day.  You will be lucky if you can get high school math class to vaguely line up to when rest of 8th grade has math.  Then to also try and put non core classes before and after math class as well is a pretty hard ask and might not be possible.

I think the best solution and what I would do would be to find her the best online program/class you can and have her go to the library for self-study math during what would be her 8th grade math period.  Way less disruptive to her day (and yours) and she would probably get more out of than taking math with a bunch of 10-11th graders who probably don’t love math. [/quote]

You haven't met post-Covid honors kids. 
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