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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can take ab and then bc in MCPS also. Op, suggest you post in aap forum. Most people on this board have children in MCPS and [b]MCPS almost never allows kids to be accelerated.[/b] So very few people would be able to provide personal perspectives. Unless they are old. MCPS used to allow it many years ago.
It is more common in fcps.[/quote]
 Great point because it will be helpful to discuss with parents whose children had experiences with an accelerated math program or those whose child is currently  in one.  I posted here because I thought more parents in Maryland will be able to give me some feedback.  I will search some of the older threads on the AAP Forum to read first.   I'm going to leave this forum and hop over there.  Thanks for the suggestion!

By the way, why doesn't MCPS almost never allow students to be accelerated?  I  thought there were quite a few test in programs in MCPS.   [/quote]

There's a long history to this. Not too too long ago, MCPS used to let lots of kids accelerate but it got very much out of hand. There were some schools where 70% of the kids were one year accelerated and 20% two years accelerated. But when they got to MS and HS the teachers complained the kids could not do basic math. The district did dismally in Algebra proficiency and other testing from the state. The kids had been moved along too fast. It was embarrassing for the administrators so they pulled back severely and created only two tracks. One goes faster and the other one goes at the "regular" pace. The accelerated track puts a kid at Calculus in 11th, which is fast for many districts, so they really stopped letting kids go ahead beyond that. There are always a handful of really exceptional kids in any district, especially in a district our size which is 160,000, so you always hear ever so often that a child so and so heard of a child three schools down from your school that has been allowed to go beyond that. Someone posted once that when these kids meet up in MS or HS magnets they are surprised to find you can count the number of kids in this situation on one hand.[/quote]

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