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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just as a data point Frost offers alg 2 in school. I believe it depends on the size of the cohort. They do warn us that there is no guarantee that alg 2 will be offered in school and that they may need to walk next door to wootton if there aren't enough students to justify a class. The two schools are next door and so it was no big deal to us.

Our process was that we were already aware that alg in 6th was an option. Since our daughter had performed very strongly in compact 5/6. We did specific private tutoring over the summer to cover the gaps skipping AIM would entail. In August we requested our daughter to be placed in algebra (coming from compact 5/6) based on 250+ MAPM score. As explained to us Frost had a formal process for this and she was placed in AIM along with other kids during which an evaluation would be done. After two weeks we were told by the teacher they could go either way to remain in AIM or move up to alg and it was up to us. From my daughter's impression the "louder" kids got moved up as well. My child is shy and quiet and did her work so probably didn't stand out and thus was considered a borderline candidate (ie didn't stand out to the teachers as exceptional)

Reading between the lines it seems who makes the cutoff or not depends on teachers trying to balance classroom size along with having a large enough cohort to continue to justify offering alg 2 in 8th. Its not a hard cutoff and there seems to be alot of subjectivity to it. [/quote]

thanks PP[/quote]

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