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[quote=Anonymous]I have FCPS grads who went to MIT and an Ivy.  They did Algebra in 7th though had friends at another ES who were in the small group that took it in 6th.  From their AAP center half went into Alg in 7th and the other half later.  So now that half would all be going to Algebra in 6th?  There is no way this works, especially this late in the game without exposure to pre-algebra and teachers who have never taught Alg.  A decent percentage of the 7th grade kids already re-take Algebra or slow their progression down later.  Many who make it through Calc end up not wanting to progress because they won't need it for their college interests.  So you are going to have a bunch of kids finished with Calc in 10th grade who need 2 more years of math to look good for colleges but only AP Stats left if they don't want to advance more.  In my kids classes where the DE MultiVar/DiffEQ/Linear Algebra was a 1 year course (now will be 2 years) was not  challenging to the top half of the class.  Now it will be a total waste of time.  Hurry up with math to get to 2 years where they are just doing 1 semester of college level math over a year?  If your kids go to school outside of VA those DE courses are unlikely to count for transfer credit.  Making easily bored advanced math kids repeat courses in college isn't great for them.  The only way where Algebra in 6th works is if kids go to TJ where they have a number of different progressions in math they can choose from and their DE MultiVar progression is 1 semester per course not a year.  We personally did not want TJ for our kids and didn't let them apply.  It would have been a tough decision in 6th not letting them take it knowing they could handle it but realizing the back end of the decision in high school could be really problematic in a number of ways and really only beneficial if they go to TJ.  [/quote]

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