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[quote=Anonymous]As everyone else has said, reach out to the school to understand why the placed him where they did. I can’t imagine it’s a “resource issue” as you said - schools have tons of geometry classes, and more importantly they WANT every incoming 9th grader on the right math path - it’s just harder for them later if they aren’t. He clearly didn’t do as well on the placement test as he thought. Two other thoughts: - our high school does informal evaluations the first two weeks of school to see if anyone is misplaced. If he does start in algebra 1, make sure he gets 100 on every homework, quiz, and test at the beginning of the year, and then a few weeks in see if you can reevaluate his placement. - if he does end up in algebra 1 next year, you can also inquire about taking algebra 2 and geometry concurrently as a sophomore. It takes away an elective slot obviously, but it’s a very common way to move math tracks.[/quote]
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