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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gate keeping on advanced classes. My 7th grader likes math and always gets As but wasn't allowed to take pre-Algebra this year because her end-of-year standardized test scores from last year didn't meet their threshold.[/quote]

Sweetie, nobody is gatekeeping, there's no conspiracy to hold your kid down. You're just one of many in denial about your special snowflake's math acuity. Publics let anyone take anything because all the As are fake and most kids don't sit for or bomb the official AP exams and don't get college credit. Publics are full of deluded parents in complete denial about their children's real world achievement.[/quote]

What an odd comment. I don't think she's a special snowflake just because she wants to be able to take Algebra in 8th grade along with 80% of other kids her age. She had one test score, from one day when she forgot to take her ADHD medicine, that was below their arbitrary cutoff and that overrode the 4 other benchmarks they used to place kids in classes. I'm not in denial, I'm simply saying that one of the cons of not choosing public is not being able to take as rigorous a course load as a student wants. Because it's not a public school and she doesn't have a 504, they were also under no obligation to let her take that test on a different day when she HAD taken her medicine. In order to catch up to her peers and take Calculus her senior year, she'll have to take Geometry over the summer; I don't see how that's better but it is what it is. [/quote]

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