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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the replies this far.

Junior, AP Calc AB. He did on level PreCalc last year and found it very easy. He was recommended for AP but after two bad quizzes I guess he should have signed up Calc with Applications. [/quote]

Wow. Last year was already a yellow flag -  taking an on-level class but  2 years ahead of on-level. You should have dropped back to honors version of +1 track last year or the year before.

Transfer to honors precalc credit replacement or Calc with Apps, and study to fill in the gaps if you want to get back on STEM track with AP Calc next year, or do stats next year for social science / humanities college. [/quote]

You must not be in MCPS. This is a very typical track for MCPS students and many of them might have been in Alg. Honors or Geo. Honors but drop to regular in Alg. 2 or Precal. Very, very common.[/quote]

Very common for students who took Geometry in [b]8th grade[/b]? Why are these students rushing ahead in math, to collapse so quickly? 
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Do you have a younger child? Not getting what your problem is.
At our DC's "W" cluster middle school 3/4 of the kids took compacted math in ES which put them on track to do Pre-algebra (IM) in 6th, Alg I in 7th and Geometry in 8th. These decisions were made when the kids were in 3rd grade and this is not a track that was considered "rushing ahead." It was just the normal track at that school.

At some middle schools, including DC's, almost all sections of math are honors so they don't really have a choice and most kids do fine in this track.

Alg. 2 or Precal is when things start to become a lot more abstract so a big chunk of kids drop down to regular/non-honors math. This is also high school so the kids may have decided math is not their priority and they want to concentrate more on their science classes or history or art classes. Lots of reasons why kids in HS make course decisions and a lot of them have nothing to do with them experiencing a "collapse."

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