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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Deal super advanced math track was pretty crappy anyway. We loved the teacher but my kid (who received high As in all Deal math classes through Algebra 2) transferred to a top DC private for high school and found that they had giant knowledge gaps from Deal's Algebra 2 class. Entered the private in honors pre-calc and got a C/D on the first test and dropped down to take Algebra 2 for a second time and fill in missing knowledge gaps. Finished up the private school's math sequence with linear algebra and is now a math major at an Ivy league university and a TA in their math dept. [/quote]

I totally believe it wasn't sufficiently rigorous for Sidwell, but I'm not sure that means it was bad. The math PARCC scores have always been good at Deal for the advanced math classes. [/quote]

The scores are good for Algebra I and Geometry. They don’t typically test or report Algebra II, which is the one the PP was saying was not very good (and also the one that seems to have been quietly retired).[/quote]

If the student is in late college now, they took it around 2018-2019. Deal very much tested Algebra II, and you can back out the numbers: 8 students took the test, 3 scored a 4 and 5 scored a 5. That's a 100% proficiency rate, which is even better than the 97% in geometry. Seems like they were doing great. [/quote]

Kid is a college freshman. Was made a TA and math grader after getting the highest grade in their freshman fall math class (basically a perfect grade). Point of my post was that Deal Algebra 2 was the low point of their math education. They weren't taught all the material and that degree of acceleration wasn't helpful or necessary. Ended up with perfect SAT math score one try, perfect ACT math one try, 5 on BC AP exam, now doing really well in college.

With our next kid (currently in high school) we purposefully didn't push them ahead to Algebra 2 at Deal. Learned the lesson with kid #1. [/quote]

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