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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A student who takes algebra 1 in 7th grade will run out of math at my FCPS school.  They will have to take senior year classes at NVCC, online, or skip math entirely.  [/quote]

Sorry, I lied, they could take a "gap year" of AP stats somewhere in the calculus track to not run out of math.  That buys one more year for the 7th grade algebra student.  Most of those kids want to keep going forward though, not side step.[/quote]

Have you ever looked at course catalogs?  Enough kids take algebra 1 in 7th that FCPS high schools offer linear algebra and multivariable calculus. [/quote]

But should they? Do you really want your kid learning college level math from a high school teacher? Guess what? Colleges don't.[/quote]

You mean colleges will prefer that they take those classes in a 100 student+ lecture hall rather than in a class that may have less than a dozen students all of whom are very good at math? I would think the latter would be preferable, but that's just me [/quote]

That's not the important distinction.

Did you go to high school? And college?  And are you keeping in mind that the AP classes our kids are taking are not the AP classes that we took ourselves?[/quote]

NP... genuinely curious, how are AP classes today different than AP classes ~25 years ago?[/quote]

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