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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our entire educational system has been dumbing things down over the past few decades. Lucy Calkins, an overreaction against homework (sure, extra work for it's own sake is not the same as rigor, but you can't have rigor without practice), and other pedagogical errors are showing their impacts at older grades.

In addition there are simply more kids with IEPs, 504s, behavioral issues, who are ESOL, and the like. This isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but all of it takes [b]time[/b] from teachers that could otherwise be used on educating.

But overall - think back 70 years. No one, and I do mean no one, was taking Calculus in your average public high school. In FCPS it's quite normal for many kids to take college level calculus. For decades our bar for what advanced looks like has gone up. Maybe it was always just due for a little regression?[/quote]At my high school, plenty of students took AP Calculus in the 1970’s, the advanced kids took two years of Calculus.  I graduated in 1982.  [/quote]

Same, although I graduated in 97 and the smart kids took BC Calc, not two years of calc.

FWIW, my parents are boomers (actually born in 45, too early to be boomers) and took calculus in high school.  Went to college on full-ride merit scholarship, so I don't think it was too common then.  [/quote]

I'm the original quoted poster. Big difference between '97 and say '78. I graduated in '02 and took through Multivar in high school, and there were plenty of FCPS kids, even those not at TJ, who did the same.[/quote]

Sure, I realize that, which is why I included my parents as well, who graduated in '63 and took calc in high school.[/quote]

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