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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what I find crazy? Is how much time Reid and the county spent on feedback and roll out of the boundary review or the new high school or ‘listening sessions’ in different parts of the county… and this just gets rolled out over night. [/quote]

Last year there was no notification, no hint that Algebra 1 pilot will be rolled out with advanced pass SOL as the criteria. We didn’t figure on making sure DD was preparing for SOL. We took it lightly as we gad no idea it will have a big impact. 
My DD scored 495 and missed the cut off of 500 in SOL. She will be taking Algebra 1 in grade 7 and if ready and she wants, geometry in summer to catch up with her AAP peers. 
Or she may not be able to catch up as taking online geometry in summer is not advisable. 
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But why are you worrying about "catching up," and why are you upset that you couldn't push your child into 6th grade Algebra?  If she only got a 495 on the 6th grade math SOL, there's no way she should be skipping math 7 and 8 and moving into Algebra.  She is nowhere near having mastery all of the pre algebra foundations that she needs.  The kids who barely reached the 500 cutoff are probably struggling, or they're the ones causing the class to be watered down.  You should be happy that you dodged a bullet.  [/quote]

So, you are saying if my DS scored 495 just due to lack of prep and effort, that was needed to score more than 500, she should not be in Algebra 1 in grade 6? 
And now all of  AAP will be able to take it from this year, even if kids score 401 or some where between 400 to 500? 
Was it fair to current AAP 6th grades who were not allowed to take it? [/quote]

Yes.  I'm saying that kids who aren't close to a perfect score on the SOL and aren't 99th percentile on MAP are not ready for and don't belong in 6th grade Algebra I, regardless of whether they put forth any prep or effort.  FCPS is doing a disservice to all of their kids by putting kids into Algebra who aren't even close to ready and have weak math foundations.  It will result in some combination of kids needing to drop down midyear, perhaps missing some foundational content, kids constantly struggling and not really understanding what they're doing, and kids receiving a watered down Algebra I class that inadequately prepares them for Algebra II and pre-calculus.

A kid who scores 495 has some significant gaps in their knowledge base.  They still need to spend more time with pre-algebra content to be ready for algebra.  I bet if your kid sat for the M7H final at the end of 5th, they'd score terribly.  They're not at all ready to skip it.[/quote]

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