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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What high schools in DCPS offer higher math classes than Walls?[/quote]

The highest math class offered at the school is Calculus.

No DCPS high school offers any math past Calculus in the whole system which is shocking in this day and age in addition to not offering all the standard AP science classes.

You can do dual enrollment but it is not the same and challenging in regards to coordinating it with full schedule at the school, logistics, etc…[/quote]

Wait how is dual enrollment not the same? Are you really arguing a high school diff EQ class is better than a dual enrollment diff EQ class at a university? Be serious.[/quote]

i believe the poster means it's a logistical challenge and a less desirable experience to take it with a bunch of strangers rather than classmates.[/quote]

This.

First the class is only offered a certain time and day at the college.  Then you have to coordinate and fit that into your kids busy school schedule and lots of times it doesn’t work.  Then you have to figure out how your kid is going to get to the class and back logistically and in time to the next class at school.

Honestly, most times it won’t work.  But let’s not kid ourselves that there are so many kids at Walls who even gets to this advance track.  There are not.[/quote]

Or at any school (other than TJ)!  No way there are full classrooms of high school kids taking differential equations (next in sequence after multivariate, right?) all over the DMV.  I call bullshit. [/quote]

We are not talking about all schools in the DMV.  But the magnets in the burbs offer more advance math courses than Walls which is the DC equivalent.  And all the schools outside DC offer your basic AP science courses.

I’m the poster whose friend’s kid was at Langely, not even a magnet school.  They offered multivariable and also linear algebra and differential equations.  Yes, all 3 courses so had enough students for these classes.[/quote]

Of course all those schools offer more classes than Walls -- they are multiple times larger!!![/quote]

I grew up in a city of 3-4 million people with a competitive exam system (in Asia) and even in that environment, which no one should want for their child (it was like climbing an ice wall with only your fingernails and watching your peers fall off as you climbed), we’re talking 10-15 kids tops in 4 years who are going past what would be considered calc BC. And even then, we were specializing (we’re known for producing Algebraists and we sent 1-2 kids to Yale a year to work there).

There’s absolutely nothing like it in the states in public education (GOOD) because there’s not enough kids who can hack it. This idea that there are classrooms full of kids in Arlington trying to parse Lang is ridiculous.[/quote]

And there have never been very many jobs or academic paths which rely on it. If you're going to be an academic mathematician, sure. But I know my high school valedictorian who became a physics professor, and he took BC calculus senior year. I have a friend who was tenured at an Ivy in a very mathy field, and he got the additional math he needed after college but before his PhD. Another one I know started at a top CS PhD program and was coming from a liberal arts college which wouldn't have even had four years of math for kids coming in with linear algebra and multivarable. Another MIT grad who got into robots--also did BC senior year. This idea that you're cutting yourself off from top STEM jobs is not true. [/quote]

No one is saying anyone is cutting themselves off from STEM jobs or whatever.

But college admissions now is nothing like it was 20 years ago, nothing.

The reality is that majority of kids going into STEM majors at competitive colleges have taken math past Calculus.  [/quote]
NAEP stats are that less than 1% of students go past calculus. What you’re proposing is mechanically impossible.[/quote]

Sorry but not relevant.  Go ask schools like MIT, VA tech and other competitive schools in math and engineering and ask how much math those kids in these majors took.  That will tell you the real story [/quote]

That’s totally relevant, the top 50 USNWR couldn’t fill their freshman classes with all the kids that went past Calc AB. It’s a mechanical reality, it’s like 30k kids in the entire country per year.[/quote]

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