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What I don't understand is cutting out advanced math until 6th grade in the article.  If some parents don't want their darling "pressured" don't they have the option to opt out?!?  The school system got rid of a program that was 90% Asian when it sounds like the people who were utilizing it, wanted it.

Taking college courses for advanced credit is voluntary.  But they got rid of that too.

Crazy.  [/quote]

Maybe the school system thought it was not a good idea for the 9-year-olds to have such advanced math under such high pressure. In fact, that is what the article says. Did you read it?

MCPS got rid of math acceleration until fourth grade, in a math progression where [i]grade-level[/i] math gets you to Calculus AB in 12th grade, and from reading DCUM, you'd think the world was coming to an end and MCPS IS DELIBERATELY TRYING TO RUIN THE LIVES OF SMART CHILDREN!1!!1.[/quote]

In the article, it sounds like the Asian parents who had their kids in advanced math classes wanted it to continue.  Not sure why people who did not have their kid in the program should have any say in the matter.[/quote]

They can still continue, it's not like the district got rid of advanced math entirely, it just starts two years later.  Most of those kids are getting outside enrichment anyway.[/quote]

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