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People may not realize this, but only 5 or 6 AAP centers allow kids to skip up to 6th grade AAP math while in 5th.  If your kid doesn't attend one of those centers, you're out of luck.  [/quote]

Which AAP centers allow it, if you don't mind sharing?[/quote]

Oops.  It's actually more than 6.
This tool shows all of the schools that have had a 6th grader take the Algebra I SOL. Scroll to the bottom to see the results.
https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/apex/f?p=152:1:6962235569602:SHOW_REPORT::::

If your kid attends one of the listed schools, then your school participates in the FCPS 6th grade Algebra path.  If it isn't listed, then either they haven't had a single student from 2018-2023 meet the criteria, or the school doesn't participate.  [/quote]
Settings for this:  Select school years 2022-2023, 2021-2022, 2020-2021, 2018-2019.  
Report level: School
Division:  fairfax county
Grade: 6
Subject area: Mathematics
Test Algebra I

Leave everything else on default, and then hit submit.  Eventually, the bottom of the page will show all of the schools that had a student take the Algebra I SOL in 6th.

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Looking at the State-wide numbers, the pass rate for 6th graders in Algebra 1 is over 98.5% for all of past two decades, and 100% more than half of the those years.  Clear evidence that [i]the[/i] 6th graders [i]allowed by their respective systems into the class[/i] are more than capable of taking on Algebra 1.

The same cannot be said of 8th grader who waited and then enrolled in Algebra 1, with 10 to 12% failing the basic SOL.  
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FTFY.

So the only argument you could possibly be legitimately making from this evidence is that FCPS should be only as restrictive as the [i]least[/i] restrictive system in Virginia that allows 6th graders to take Algebra 1. Since no system is open enrollment, you cannot be making the OP's argument, which was a fallacious connection between an article about advanced math in Texas and open enrollment for 6th graders into Algebra 1 Honors.[/quote]

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