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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alg 2 is offered in every MoCo HS for 8th graders who qualify. [/quote]

But only a few wealthy ES offer AIM in 6th grade. TPMS for example, won't allow anyone who hasn't taken AIM to take Algebra in 6th grade. Only kids who have taken Algebra in 6th grade are able to take Algebra 2 in 8th.[/quote]

Yes the feeder schools were really strict on this. I'm sure a few others as well. Many kids were shut out of that track because of it. Would have been helpful to mine during Functions -- that was a beast.[/quote]

Then you should have gone to a non-wealthy school.  Ours allows it.[/quote]
Huh?
Wealthy W ESs don't feed into TPMS. 
Piney Branch and Pine Crest (HGC) weren't wealthy (at least when my kids went)! Both very rigid not letting any of the kids (including kids from tpes's magnet back in the day) advance beyond compacted. It was the whole 2.0 thing. [/quote]

That's so weird because DC is at TPMS along with several other Potomac kids whose ES also offered AIM in 5th grade so they were able to take in Algebra in 6th.[/quote]

Some schools allow kids to skip aim and others require it.  The issue is most es don’t have aim.   [/quote]

The only MS I know of that routinely allows kids to skip AIM is Frost. Also, the only ES that hosts an AIM class in 5th was Cold Spring.[/quote]

Well, you need to get out of your bubble.  I don't know any ES that have AIM.  My kid skipped AIM.[/quote]

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