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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My STEM PhD husband didn't do all the math our daughter is doing in high school, simply because it wasn't offered. You cannot compare generations like this when it comes to education. Decades ago there wasn't all this acceleration available to most kids.

DD is in precalc in 9th, OP. She got there because she tested into algebra 1 in 6th. In 8th grade she was bused to her high school for algebra 2. She will take AP Calc BC next year, and then MVC and another math class. Also AP Physics C, both semesters. She has a list of 14 or so APs that she's working through - she's the competitive type. [/quote]

Ok?   This is not typical and honestly not necessary.   Students like this can have major problems when they’re at MIT or another top university and there are students on her level or higher who went the normal route.  [/quote]

About 15% of FCPS students will take Algebra 1 H in 7th grade. Some of them find it easy, my son never has homework and has a 102% in the class. Some of them find it challenging. Some will earn B's and their parents have to decide to let them continue on or expunge the grade and retake the class to make sure that their kid really knows that material. Some of his classmates are taking Geometry this summer because they want to be in Precalc as 9th graders, most of those kids are applying to TJ and think there is a benefit. Most of those kids will do fine in Geometry. The ones that might struggle have parents who will get them tutors for any math class they need the support in.

But no one thinks that it is typical to be in precalc as a 9th grader and the vast majority of families, ours included, don't think it is necessary. 
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Where's the cite for it being 15%? Coming from 6th grade advanced math, it felt like it was about 50% of that class who tested into Algebra 1 H in 7th, but I never got a sense of what it was like county-wide.[/quote]

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