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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach at a Catholic HS in NoVa and the St. Louis students are historically weak in math and do not do well on the math placement exam, so we have parents mad because their kids got As in 8th grade math and cannot do well enough on the exam to skip a
algebra, although they say they took it in 8th. [/quote]

Not a St. Louis parent. To be fair, that exam is ridiculously difficult. One of my children had a 98-99 all year in Algebra at a strong DoA middle school, great performance on the Diocese-produced final exam, and only scored a 77. Another kid had close to 600s on the Alg 1 VA SOL, high 90s on the HSPT, yet didn't come close to passing. Meanwhile, the math actually TAUGHT at the Diocesan high school is way too easy. Child took Honors Algebra 2/Trig in 9th grade, had a 99 for the final class grade, yet was never taught some of the basic Algebra 2 concepts that appear on the SATs and wasn't required to memorize formulas. At the time child said they were learning in Algebra 2 some of the concepts that were tested on the Algebra 1 exam. Had to self-teach with Kahn Academy and finally caught up to the SATs in "Honors" Pre-Calculus. There are serious problems with that math placement exam, that the content and expectations aren't making it down to the K-8 teachers to get the students ready, and that the exam is testing at levels far, far above where the high school actually ends up teaching.[/quote]

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