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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Geez, setting kids up to fail. "We know you didn't meet the bare minimum to be successful in algebra 1, but I'll put you in the class anyway because your parents are obnoxious and if I tell them no it will make my job harder in the short term."

[b]Poor kids. It's going to be a long slog of math to high school graduation[/b].[/quote]

Poor teachers - dealing with kids who can’t really do math now in an Algebra class. Totally ridiculous. Some of these kids will just retake algebra in 7th anyway because you know this year isn’t going to go well for them. Absolutely no one will go straight to Geometry in 7th after this mess. [/quote]

Some will.  Actually, I suspect a significant number will, regardless of grades.  While DCUM loves to recount the families that expunge A-'s, in my experience 99% of families take the grade and move on.  I have a lot of freshmen in algebra 2 honors who got Bs and Cs in geometry in 8th grade. They don't want to expunge/repeat though, even when the offer is presented.

I also have multiple (5+) kids this year who got Bs or lower in algebra 1 in middle school but took geometry over the summer anyway (and got Cs or Ds) to be able to take algebra 2 this year. And still they push ahead.  It's an interesting race to nowhere.

Right now the rule is if you take geometry as a middle schooler it has to be honors. I will be curious to see if that rule goes away and schools have to start offering regular geometry to prevent kids from failing with this massive push to get kids to take algebra earlier and earlier.[/quote]

That’s hard to fathom taking a C or D for an advanced math grade.  No parent would do that.[/quote]

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