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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I award you no points. I graduated many years ago from the Blair magnet. Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Biology - all done by the end of 10th grade. (I recall them being one semester each but I forget whether they were double period or not. Maybe biology was double period.) All the sciences are accelerated so you can take lots of electives in 11th and 12th grade. It starts lower order to higher order. I didn't buy into the reasoning, but either way it's not hard for a 9th grader to learn physics at all. It's all simple equations and any calculus you need has simple practical shorthand.

By accelerated, I don't mean half-finished, I mean the same compressed track on which everything happens. Algebra II/Precalculus math content is shrunk to three semesters from four. Functions (which you have to have special scores just to get into) shrinks that into two semesters. Two years of computer science training and halfway through you could take the AP comp sci exam. Then how about the electives? Differential equations? Analytical chemistry? Optics? Artificial intelligence?

This whole squeeze through as many kids as possible is just absolute hogwash. The magnet has not changed its fundamental approach in decades. It is not a "typical" program.

I go on DCUM like once a year and all the infighting I obviously don't care for but I do have to step in for this one.[/quote]

This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to compress the math that much, even for really bright kids.  Algebra 2 and Pre-Cal are hard enough.[/quote]

Not really.[/quote]

+1.  Alg. 2 and Pre-calc are where the kids should be at as they start the magnet program.  It is (relatively) baby math, and the kids should be able to handle it so as to get to the really fun parts of math.[/quote]

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