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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ students who are that accelerated fall into two camps

- autistic savant in math
- children of tiger moms hellbent on MIT[/quote]How do the former get placed in precalculus in middle school, when no school has that as an option?[/quote]

FCPS skips some kids ahead in math by several years in early ES.  FCPS has maybe 1-5 kids per grade level who take [b]Algebra I in 5th or even 4th grade[/b].  They take classes either at the nearest school that offers them, or they do it through the FCPS online campus.  [/quote]
If parent can convince elementary school principal, then the advanced path cascades from there.  There are few kids on this super accelerated path who have done calc AB and others who have done calc BC by end of 9th grade.  [/quote]The principal will need to test the kid and then get Gatehouse to sign off on the acceleration.[/quote]

Is the decision to test publicly available policy, or up to the principal's discretion? If it's the former, can you link the policy for us? And if it's the latter, then the PP was correct in claiming that parents need to convince the principal to begin the process.

If it's a secret internal policy, then the latter case applies since an unconvinced principal can choose to not test and deny the existence of the policy.[/quote]

It's not worth approaching the principal at all for this unless your kid shows up on iready as 3 grade levels ahead.  For example, if your kid is a first grader and iready says that the kid is "At Level 4," it may be worth a meeting with the principal.

In FCPS, almost all policies are up to the principal, who simply may not be willing to implement the policy.  FCPS has a very clear policy for which kids are eligible to skip 5th grade AAP math and take the 6th grade class while in 5th grade.  Despite the policy, any principal can decide that they're just not going to let any kids skip up in math.  I'm not sure that there is any recourse for kids who are otherwise eligible, but have a principal who doesn't want to implement the program.  [/quote]

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