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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I argue that low SEN kids who go to poor middle schools purely due to circumstances of birth shouldn’t be punished for having too many barriers to achieving Geometry by 8th.[/quote]

While I think FCPS should remove all barriers to reaching Geometry by 8th, there honestly aren't that many barriers, even for poorer kids.  Gifted kids without any prep can and will earn high NNAT or CogAT scores.  Even if they don't, they're often referred by their teachers for AAP.  Even if they don't get into AAP, every single FCPS elementary school offers advanced math.  If a kid is not in advanced math by 5th or 6th grade, it means the kid has not had particularly good test scores (inclusive of SOLs, iReady, CogAT, beginning-of-year tests), and the kid has also not impressed the teacher in any way.

Assuming the kid is placed in advanced or AAP math, the kid simply needs to meet the fairly low bar of 91st percentile on IAAT and a pass advanced on the SOL.  This requires no prep at all for a kid who is bright in math.  At many of the lower SES middle schools, these requirements are waived for kids who are vaguely close to qualifying.  FCPS gives even the poor kids every chance to qualify for Algebra in 7th grade.  The kids who don't qualify simply aren't very good at math.  [/quote]

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