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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone successfully been able to have their child moved up a level in math and if so, what did you do? Student is in fourth grade AAP[/quote]

Probably a bad idea, but acceleration is available at the wealthier schools[/quote]
acceleration is available at all schools including the worst performing fcps schools, except there is not much interest in math as much as sports.  Bottom performing schools are also wealthy when it comes to sports interests.    [/quote]

Strange, our child checked all of the boxes for acceleration to be able to take Algebra in 6th grade and no one from the school talked to us about it. We choose not to pursue it, we did not think he needed to be three years ahead in math, but no one at the school mentioned it was even a possibility. We were at a school with about 10% FARMs rate.

FCPS does not actively promote advanced math as an option at most schools. I am sure there are a few schools where it happens frequently enough that the parents there think it is commonly available but even those schools are under 10 students, I would guess that there might be an occasional school with 5 kids in Algebra 1 in 6th grade.

There were 40 6th graders who took the Algebra 1 SOL in 2021
There were 22 6th graders who took the Algebra 1 SOL in 2022
There were 31 6th graders who took the Algebra 1 SOL in 2023
There were 25 6th graders who took the Algebra 1 SOL last year.

This is not a regular path.
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None of the FCPS PE teachers recommend accelerating in basketball.  Yet, families pour money and time into accelerating their students just to get into FCPS school basketball teams.  Does FCPS actively promote this advanced sports acceleration path?

Academic acceleration is no different.  Students have different interests.  [/quote]

I have no idea how you are comparing accelerating in math to kids playing rec basketball or travel basketball to kids accelerating in math. Kids are not accelerated into advanced PE in school. Sports in HS are an after school activity and not a requirement. Most kids play rec sports because there is not enough movement during the school day and the only way that kids will learn to play most sports is to participate in rec sports. Sports are a hobby, something done in your free time. And yes, some kids love them and dive fully into. Other kids do the same with drama or art or music.

My kid does math competitions and takes extra math because he enjoys it. I get that kids have different interests and for some kids that is math. He is doing Algebra in 7th grade, he has been accelerated. A very small number are allowed to accelerate into Algebra in 6th grade because it is not a great fit for most kids.

Still not seeing the sports angle here. We should let the travel sports kids have a different PE class? We should let the travel sports kids take PE at the MS? 
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Some kids accelerate more than their peers in basketball and others kids learn math faster than others. What is so difficult to understand?[/quote]

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