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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS took Algebra 1 Honors in 8th grade in FCPS - which is the math level that most college bound students follow in FCPS.  He went to a private Catholic high school and had to take a math placement test.  He didn't score high enough to go into Geometry so he took Algebra 1 Honors again in 9th grade.  I probably could have made a fuss and gotten him into regular Geometry - he scored right below the cutoff for the placement exam.  At the time, he was not happy about having to repeat the material.  He ended up getting A's in each math class in high school: Algebra 1 Honors, Geometry Honors, Algebra 2 Honors and Pre-Calc Honors.  My DS is majoring in math in college.  If you ask him, he would say he was really glad he repeated Algebra and it really gave him a very solid foundation.[/quote]

We were in APS. My oldest took Intensified Algebra I twice (7th and 8th) at his public MS. He had As, but the 7th grade math teacher was awful.  When he went to take a placement after 7th to qualify it for Catholic high school- he bombed it.  There was stuff on there that he never was taught. I made him retake Algebra (the most important fir foundation) even though he had an A in it.  He then started Honors Geometry in 9th- and got back on track so to speak.

A lot of this accelerated middle school math is sh@t.  [/quote]

When my oldest started HS, at orientation they told parents "if your kid did not get at least a B/B- in Algebra 1, we highly recommend they retake it (over the summer or the next year) to build that foundation for future math and chemistry and other sciences" This was in a district/MS/HS where 80% of kids were at least 1 grade level ahead (in fact the district attempted to push all kids 1 grade ahead in MS and it failed miserably as one would expect with at least 50% of those on-grade level kids).  [/quote]

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