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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ has a large catchment area.  It's reasonable to expect there to be at least 30 kids who are naturally that talented in math and who belong in 9th grade Calc.

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Also, FCPS is very strict about accelerating kids.  FCPS kids who take Algebra in 5th or earlier are quite rare.  Gatehouse doesn't sign off on letting more than a few kids per grade level take this path.  Parents of kids who are ahead due to a lot of outside supplementation will not have any luck in pushing their kids ahead.  They won't meet the FCPS metrics, and skipping ahead will not be an option.  More kids are allowed to take Algebra in 6th, but it's still probably only around 50 kids in the entire county.  There are pretty strict requirements, and they can't simply be met by heavy supplementation.

Private schools and LCPS might be worse with allowing kids to overaccelerate.  TJ has no real obligation to admit those kids.  If LCPS is accelerating kids willy nilly, that's their problem.  Likewise, kids who are ahead and will run out of math because they took Summer Geometry shouldn't be guaranteed a spot at TJ.  TJ should have an obligation to admit the very few kids that FCPS deemed as needing extreme acceleration, and who additionally have a track record of straight As in Honors Algebra, Honors Geometry, Honors Algebra II, and Honors Precalc.  [/quote]

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