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This is why I want my child to be moved. Is your child doing well? A or B in Math? My kid got a 260 this Fall and in Spring and is in one of the whole school magnets. What will your child take in 7th and 8th in this path?[/quote]

My child is now in 8th (Hon Algebra 2) and has been getting straight A's. [b]They are extremely self directed and is the type to re-write their notes when they get home from school and do extra problems of their own initiative. Not one of the math "stars" but does the work diligently.
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Frost has a teacher who teaches Alg 2 in school though they warn every year that it is not a guarantee and students may need to walk to Wootton in the morning. I'm guessing part of the reason they are open to students accelerating is to maintain enough of a cohort to justify offering Alg2 in school. I can imagine at other middle schools that it becomes a logistical hassle for counselors and math department.

Our plan for High school is Precal -> BC Calc -> Multi Var Calc -> AP Stats.  Still on the fence about this as a 1 year break in calc before college could lose momentum. 
Depending on schedule load we may decide to do AB Calc then BC Calc to slow things down or maybe do AP Stats first and then do BC Calc as a junior. One of the reasons to accelerate was to open options up in high school. Having AP Stats early may help with research internships or projects, or if they have an interest in physics makes Physics C as a junior an easier path with AP Calc as a sophomore.  Again, opens up options, even for a kid who is not brilliant at math but mature enough to keep up with the work.

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OP here. This is how my DD is too. My DD says a 6th grader on the bus got moved to Algebra 1 after Fall MAP test since he got 285 or something like that, so they do move kids if they are way ahead. The Math coordinator first emailed me about how the kids struggle when they are with high schoolers, then about how they will miss their peers and avoided moving her when I emailed before we started school. Now he comes up with the its past 25 days. It just seemed like he does not want to advance kids unless they are extreme outliers like the kid with 285. Kind of unfair to kids like my DD who are better off than the cohorts in the class. Considering this is a whole school magnet, would have been nice if they approached it like Frost does and offered Algebra 2 in their own school. DD says that many kids struggle in AIM and get 3/10, 4/10 in quizzes and the class goes slower so everyone catches up. Apparently the teacher who is the coordinator as well asked her if she found it easy and she said yes, so he knows she finds it easy. She likes his class because he is funny, but what good does that do for her if she gets into a magnet in high school and then struggles because she is not used to working hard.

Do colleges care about whether a kid has done AP Stats or Multi Var Cal for acceptance? [/quote]

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