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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you set on MCPS? In VA, AAP accepts a larger population so all kids are not 3% but they are not wed to this adhering to a basic bottom standard for each grade level that MCPS has embraced. Howard County also does better now with math acceleration than MCPS though VA has TJ.

Your son would have done great in the old MCPS system where a child with mastery and the skills could progress to the appropriate level. My older child received a great math education from MCPS and was never held back. Sadly, 2.0 wiped away the old math program. This is NOT the place to move to for math anymore. [/quote]

Do you know what percentage in Howard County take 6th grade algebra?  MCPS offers many kids 7th grade algebra.  If you are looking for 6th grade algebra I think you would have a hard time finding it.[/quote]

Where I went to school, in a college-town public school system that prided itself on its academics, algebra in 8th grade was the advanced track. That was a while ago, but I just checked, and it still is. Whereas in MCPS, algebra in 8th grade is the grade-level track, and algebra in 7th grade is the advanced track. In other words, the advanced students in MCPS are two years ahead of the grade-level students where I went to school. So I find it hard to get upset about the so-called lack of acceleration in MCPS.[/quote]

Yup! Most people have no idea what they are talking..[/quote]

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