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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]no 5th or 6th grader needs to be taking Algebra.  Just no need.  Let your 10 year old be 10. [/quote]

None should be compelled to. Unnecessary. But those that are ready should have the option, preferably at school. [/quote]

Very few are "ready" and most do end up feeling compelled to "stay ahead" or be in the classes with the other "smart kids." We need a study on actual outcomes of the hyper-accelerated math kids. The ones I know are all humanities majors who ended up up barely tolerating having to take another math class.[/quote]

I think this is correct. When I was a kid (at a test-in magnet school with ~220 kids where no one was behind grade level to start with), there were two tracks for math, which prepared kids for either AB or BC calc in 12th. There was a way to take two math classes at once along the way (in lieu of another AP class), so that a handful of kids who wanted to do math or directly math adjacent subjects in college could do BC in 11th and multi-variable in 12th (5-10 students), but there was an equally challenging path they'd be passing up in another subject. Then there were a very few students (0-2 per year) that were more accelerated than that. Two kids I know on that trajectory are math and physics, professors, respectively at top tier universities. This still seems like a reasonable approach to me. Acknowledging the need for exceptional cases of real acceleration, some choice-based acceleration in mid-late HS that kids weren't pressured to take just to take the "hardest" classes and then two normal tracks for kids whose thing is math and for kids whose thing isn't. I do not remotely understand the benefit of having the most advanced of all of those tracks be the "norm" for normal smart kids who don't intend to be math or math-adjacent majors. It doesn't make any sense to me.[/quote]

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