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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]
The entire point of original article and the title of this discussion is URM kids are being excluded from advanced math options that have proven to be overwhelmingly successful with 98% pass rate everywhere (including VA according to above data. ). An open enrollment with an option to step down increases the opportunities in advanced math for URM kids.

from article:
"We have seen our advanced math enrollment numbers for all demographics increase," McDaniel said. "But specifically with students of poverty and students of color, we have seen an increase in the number of students in advanced math tracks." [/quote]

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