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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ds is in grade 7. He s currently taking algebra 1. He s thriving. I tried talk him out of it but he wants to take it and the teacher thought he d do well. [/quote]

This isn’t what you need to worry about. It is at the other end of your child’s academics when confronted with upper level math courses and possibly struggling there. The data is there in FCPS that shows a huge number of students taking less demanding courses in 11th and 12th grade because they aren’t prepared for the rigor due to acceleration and memorization vs. understanding. [/quote]

I agree with this.  High school level classes taught at the middle school level are severely watered down.  [b]Especially in world language. [/b] If you have a student who is exceptionally gifted in math, it won't matter.  It's the average math students that may struggle as the math rigor intensifies.[/quote]

I know this is a bit off topic, but does the bolded mean kids should wait until HS to take a language rather than take it in MS? My kid wants to do band along with two half year electives, rather than a language as a second full year elective. I assume this is common? I wish it wasn’t either/or but if 9th grade language courses don’t assume much of any prior knowledge I guess it’s ok? It’s weird to me because I didn’t do a language ins ES bit in MS it was pretty rigorous, and I then continued it in HS and took the AP course. Can kid start a new language in HS and do well in AP down the road? [/quote]

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