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For the proponents of acceleration, what level of math do you expect a high school to be able to teach? TJHSST and the selective privates don't have math classes beyond 2nd year college math classes(linear algebra, differential equations, numerical analysis) because it is essentially impossible to find high school teachers able to teach material beyond that level.  As another poster noted, if everyone ends up in the same place in high school, why stress about what they could do in 3rd grade?[/quote]

Do you feel the same way about reading? All students should be instructed at the same level, should read at the same level in class, and do the same reading comprehension work?[/quote]

I don't think that it matters whether your child can read before they start school or in kindergarten or in first grade. They will all be pretty strong readers by 3rd grade, unless they have serious learning challenges. Just because my DC was reading before starting JK didn't make him special. It just meant that reading was easy for him.  He had lots of other things to learn. By the time he got to high school at a selective private, everyone had the basic skills and the question becomes who knows how to apply them to much harder materials and expectations.  [/quote]

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