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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would (and did) discourage double blocking at Deal. No regrets. There are not a lot of long-term benefits to doing Geometry in 8th, and even fewer to doing Algebra II. It’s more important to build a strong foundation in algebra than to race through the foundational math as fast as possible. There’s no clear benefit in college admissions. Private and Catholic schools are mostly holding the line at geometry in 9th. A lot of Deal students who take Algebra II in 8th, who go to high schools with placement exams, wind up taking it over again. (And a lot of students who take calculus in high school take it over again in college, too.)

Also, 8th grade art was great. [/quote]

Agree when this.  my son was in the Algebra 2 cohort and I'd say that 80% of his classmates took it over again, including ever single kid who went on to private or Catholic (those schools do placement exams).  the kids just don't learn much and they skip over many Algebra 2 topics.  [/quote]

+1. We found the same.  Similarly, kids who were in Spanish 3 at Deal ended up in Spanish 1 at our private HS after taking the placement test.  It was . . . . no bueno.  [/quote]

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