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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]

HS teacher here. I don’t know about Alg in 6th because that’s really young and should be rare.  But most who take Algebra before they are ready and master it just move on anyway. They get through Geometry and hit the wall in Algebra 2.  Parents are angry, demand meeting after meeting about the horrible teacher with strict grading but it’s really because their child doesn’t have a solid and strong foundation.

Many of us were discussing in our math department meeting yesterday how we have students with the weakest algebra foundations ever in our classes this year.  Algebra 1 is the most important HS class your kid will take.  Do not rush through it.  It is the foundation for everything else.  It doesn’t matter if that happened in 6th grade or 9th grade.  [/quote]

💯. No need to rush the foundation and the cracks show up later in my experience.  FCPS was irresponsible in rolling this out.  Kids taking algebra without ever having taken pre algebra is WILD.  Moreover this cohort of kids are generally behind on math and reading compared to years prior to Covid.  Disaster waiting to happen.  [/quote]

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