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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for your responses. I don't want to escalate if it is not necessary. The student is coming from a different school system and the counselor is placing them at low level classes without testing. [/quote]

I know this feels like an emergency right now, but k[b]ids can and do change classes right up through the second week of school[/b].

My child's school literally just sent the all course change form about 5 minutes ago.

Is the problem that the counselor is being unresponsive, or is the problem that they disagree with you about placement?? Has your child already taken the class they are being assigned to?[/quote]

Thank you, this is good to know.
The class overlap is not 100%. Basically, in their school, they have taken 80% of the content for the class they are assigned to, 85% of the class above and 30% of the class above that. They have already closed almost all of that gap while working at home during the summer. DC is a high performer, never got a B on a single test in the subject, sometimes was an only student who got an A. There is little doubt that they will be demoralized and bored in a class they are assigned to.
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This sounds like a math class, so good news, you don't have to worry about it filling up. There are always more math classes, and there is movement early in the semester. It's common, for example, to drop from Honors Pre-Calculus to on-level Pre-Calculus.

At this point, I'd escalate politely to the resource counselor and the math resource teacher (math department lead) with exactly the content you put in this message - your child covered Topic A to Topic F in Algebra II at their old school, and then topic A to Topic C of Pre-Calculus. Offer to have them sit a placement test if needed. Be polite, but clear. [/quote]

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