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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a 6th grader and an 8th grader at TJMS and like it just fine. My kids both play wind instruments seriously and think that the band director is terrific. She organizes a band members' field trip to an amusement park in the spring. We like the diversity - my kids have sweet friends whose families immigrated from Asia, the Middle East, Central America. These kids are good student and study buddies.  We don't hear about discipline problems. The 8th grader takes intensified core classes across the board, for science, English, geography for HS credit, algebra II.  When my older child was admitted to a competitive STEM summer sleep-away camp the spring that ran during the last week of school, she was excused from school that week by admins not only with zero fuss, but with encouragement to go enjoy the camp. Friendly, well-run school.[/quote]

That is really interesting about Algebra II.  I did not realize that APS offered Algebra II in middle school.  [/quote]

Algebra II is not on the middle school pathway for math. They might offer it to kids under special circumstances, but it’s definitely not the norm. [/quote]

This was a number of years ago, but my kid (who is now a senior in college double majoring in math and computer science) took Algebra II via an on-line course while at Gunston (this was, of course, pre-COVID).  He got an A, but really didn't learn much, and really struggled in math the following year when he went to TJHSST.  Eventually he got his feet under him and has done well, but that level of acceleration (which was initiated by the school when he was in 6th grade and did extremely well on the beginning of year assessment) didn't really do him any favors, though he did well in Algebra I and Geometry in 6th and 7th grade, respectively.[/quote]

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