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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most students and parents are not going to be stressed at all. The plan had been to take Algebra 1 in 7th grade anyway.  FCPS made it clear that is is easy peasy to scrub the grade and retake if needed. Why would anyone be stressed? [/quote]
Most of the 700+ students are really liking the Algebra 1 in 6th grade program. Not everyone, of course, but the overwhelming majority of 6th graders are having a positive experience with Algebra 1.

There are a few parents who know this pilot program might be too challenging for their child but still choose to keep them enrolled. Instead of simply opting out, some of them have decided to criticize the entire program. Participation is completely optional. But for some, dropping out would mean admitting that their child isn’t quite ready for what most of the other 700 students are handling just fine. So instead, on their way out, they try to discredit the whole effort, maybe to save face, maybe out of frustration, who knows.[/quote]

How do you know all of this? And, what does it have to do with my original question? I am almost convinced that our school is botching implementation of a program that could be wonderful (as evidenced by parents at other schools ).

Also, why do you keep insisting that only a parent of a struggling student would complain. Are you somehow related to our teacher, who is refusing to do the basic minimum?
I mean most students at our school pilot are motivated  and self starters. It doesn’t take much to make the program a full success.
 
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The attitude is no different then the people insisting geometry in the summer is easy and everyone gets A’s or that A1H in 7th grade is easy. I don’t understand it but it is common on this board.

I am sorry that your child’s class is not communicating basic information with you. I hope that it gets better. Part of the issue might be having an ES teacher used to grading and reporting grading one way teaching a HS class with very different needs.

I strongly suspect that there are a good number of kids struggling and that those kids are in for a rough ride. I hope that their parents move them to the AAP 6th grade class soon but I fear that there are parents who are so focused on acceleration that they won’t move their kid and math is going to quickly become a hated class. It is less that the kids can’t understand the content and more that the pace and expectations are so much greater because it is a HS class. Some kids might be able to understand the concepts but not be ready for the pace and work.

I also think that many of the teachers were not prepared for teaching A1H and that there is a learning curve that is pretty steep. [/quote]

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