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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One reason we stayed in MCPS. Kid 1 did Alg 1 in 7th, kid 2 did Alg 1 in 6th. MCPS offers AP Stats, AP Calc (AB and BC), multivariable calculus and dual enrollment with community college should kids want more. We know a kid who took a math class at UMD for 12th grade.[/quote]

Is MCPS keeping this type of acceleration? I have heard that they are eliminating some of these types of offerings. [/quote]

I hope so! I haven't heard anything from MCPS, and the thing is, Alg 1 in 6th was never an official pathway in the first place, and never announced or displayed on math pathway slides for incoming parents - not in my two kids' BCC cluster, at any rate. We heard about it through the grapevine, and requested this placement of the middle school math coordinator the summer before 6th. DD was bused to her high school for Alg 2 in 8th grade, and that worked well: their Alg 2 was in first period, and since high school starts earlier, when you factor in commute time, the 3 kids who were on the bus were able to return to their middle school for second period without being late. She has enough math classes in her high school to do math every year. This year, she's in 10th grade and AP Calc BC was a breeze. Next year, she'll do multivariable, and then she wants to do AP Stats, because she's considering a major in biology, for which statistics is very useful.
 
MCPS used to do the "bussing to high school thing" for world languages as well, to accommodate kids who spoke that foreign language at home and who tested into higher levels of that language in MCPS middle schools. But I heard this might have been eliminated, at least for our cluster. We considered it for my oldest years ago, since we speak another language at home, but decided instead to keep our kids enrolled in their weekend native language school and take a third language in MCPS.

I certainly hope that Alg 1 in 7th is still offered! That seems like a standard pathway to me.
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