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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parental frustration comes from[b] the fact that the child's math path for the rest of their time in MCPS is being decided based on a mysterious evaluation done when the kid is 8 years old[/b]. Now, in some clusters, they apparently will skip kids up into the advanced pathway in middle school. But in many clusters, the kid's math path is set at the end of third grade.
When I was a kid, the last chance for acceleration didn't happen until the end of 7th grade.[/quote]

This is actually not a fact. It is an exaggerated fear not rooted in reality.

What is a fact: in my kid's middle school, sixth-grade kids were skipped up (to IM) and seventh-grade kids were skipped up (to Algebra I).[/quote]
did you bother to read the rest of the comment where I said that in some clusters kids do get skipped ahead in middle school? [b]And the fact is also true that it does not happen in our cluster[/b].[/quote]

How do you know that it doesn't happen in your cluster?[/quote]

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