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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP does your child supplement outside of MCPS? I looked at that test and I saw at least three topics that are not covered by MCPS Alg. 2 so it's odd that your child could magically get 100% of those questions right.
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OP here. Like I posted  elsewhere DS does AoPS. This is the first year he is not going to do it because of another activity. [/quote]

IMO, your two options are go to regular Precal or stay in honors, with or without a tutor, and don't worry about the grade too much. He's absorbing the material which will mean higher level classes will be fine.[/quote]

The OP said “struggling massively”. That’s the opposite of being fine.[/quote]

Read the updates.[/quote]

Yeah, things really improved from Thursday night to Sunday.[/quote]

She explained what she meant by that. To me it sounds like the teacher is unnecessarily piling on tests that don’t allow enough time for a kid who understands the content.[/quote]

+1
Although I don't agree with describing the teacher as "piling on" because it's unclear to me the teacher is doing anything wrong or excessive but just that the student works a bit more slowly than other students despite having a great grasp of the material.

I don't know why that other PP is obsessed with putting down OP and her child and finding flaws in her story.

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My kid has had a similar issue and if his teacher had as many tests would also have a D. But his teacher doesn’t. And many other kids in the class (all kids with a very strong history of being high achievers in math) are saying the exact same thing. They know the content, but they just can’t do it fast.[/quote]

Why would more tests change the average grade?

Does the teacher have a bunch "task"  homework the goes in the 90% bucket with "assessment" quizzes? 
(Homework can be either in the 10% "practice/prep" bucket, or the 90% "task/assessment" bucket.)

Feels super dodgy to put homework, which is easily cheatable, in the same bucket as in school tests. Honest kids would get hurt  by cheaters making the homework look too easy.[/quote]

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