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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just find it interesting when parents of 8th graders taking what's typically 9th or 10th grade subjects then worry about too much or fast advancement in high school. You put you kid on this track. And yes, most colleges like to see 4 high school years of math, English, science, history and a foreign language proficiency. So if your kid starts high school at Algebra 2/Trig, that will be a mighty math load over four years. But that's not the school's fault. Ironic that you then need to search for a low stress environment when the stress was of your own making. [/quote]As far as math placement goes, generally parents go with the school's placement. You can't talk your way into 8th grade geometry, you need test scores. I'm not sure that you can easily dial back classes, either. I know at least one kid who signed up for gen chem and 3 weeks into class got relocated to the honors class without the child or parent requesting it.[/quote]

We went with the schools placement and put our ds in Algebra I honors in 7th grade. He has done well, but not great, so we're going to slow it down and have him do Algebra again in 8th. He's not in love with math, and won't ever need multi-variable calculus, so we've decided to kick it back a notch and make sure the basics are solid before he moves forward. [/quote]

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