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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shouldn't this be based on individual ability and interests? [/quote]

Schools are obsessed with "max rigor." So if advanced math is offered to one kid at a school, then all other kids feel the need to do it so that they can also say they have "max rigor." Even though once they get to college they will only be a semester or two ahead, which doesn't do a lot of good, and, as someone noted, they will have been taught key fundamental classes by Mr. Joe Blow, with an MA from some teachers college, rather than Dr. Joseph Blow, with an Ivy PhD (which admittedly doesn't make someone a better "teacher" but definitely means they know the material better.).

Schools often are truly doing students a disservice by offering these classes and by pushing them ahead. They think it makes the school look better that they are offering this, but at some point, it really doesn't. But they are unlikely to claw it back as they think it will make them look bad compared to other schools. Nope.[/quote]

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