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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish you good luck finding an actual answer to this question. MCPS is very disorganized about this and you can ask 5 ppl and get 5 different answers. It’s a different process and cut off for each different school, which I personally think is confusing, inequitable and unnecessary. I’d start by contacting the math department head at the specific middle school where your child is headed. I imagine they’ll look a what level math your child completed at the previous school and may administer a MAP test and/or solicit a teacher recommendation. [/quote]

Sure there are a lot of uninformed parents but there are recognized diagnostics and guidelines as a PP pointed out.[/quote]

Every school has different rules some MS allow it and some don't.  OP isn't necessarily asking about Algebra and asking about placement.  They will look at the child's grades, and test scores and talk to the teacher/parent to make the decision.  There is no consistency in each of the schools and the poster says that because TMPS doesn't allow Algebra in 6th, so no Silver Spring schools do is making stuff up. We were given a registration form and had to have the ES teacher sign off saying yes and that was it.[/quote]

I don't understand why central office cannot create a transparent policy that applies to all MS.[/quote]

DP. I may be moving from DCPS to MCPS and I appreciate the flexibility that the MCPS MS I visited has in math placement. I don’t think everything needs a centralized, top-down policy. I liked that the principal said the math coordinator would help us figure it out. I prefer being able to have people make decisions with more discretion to take the actual school into account. [/quote]

Except that discretion means that some schools will never offer kids what they qualify for. You could say “at X score you are placed in Y class” and then allow the school to pull more kids in, but if you don’t provide the parameters some schools just won’t let anyone in.[/quote]

And if you do have parameters they will be by nature arbitrary and won’t allow the flexibility to take chances, and administrators will be more concerned about compliance than actually putting kids into the right classes.

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