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[quote=Anonymous][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]

LCPS has a higher proportion of kids taking algebra in 7th than FCPS, at least at some schools.  Because of summer geometry, there is probably 100 kids taking algebra 2/trig in 8th grade.
Might be the same 50 kids taking algebra in 6th in the county, though these numbers are way down now after they started implementing VMPI early, and are now getting back to what happened before.  Online has also reduced the learning of the 4th and 5th graders.   Many of the algebra 2 8th graders are not getting As, particularly the summer geometry kids, though some of them are good.  LCPS generally has these kids tracked for calculus in 10th grade with a 9th grade analysis class.  The trig portion of the curriculum is pretty weak.[/quote]

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