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[quote=Anonymous]This year (7th grade) there are about 40-50 kids (out of 550+) who are in Algebra I.  Most of these kids did the summer math program.   These kids are on track to take Calculus in 11th grade. 
DCPS (Wilson) has the math programming to handle this.

Out of the 40-50, about 5-10 are also taking geometry concurrently.  This is what is referred to by previous poster as "double acceleration".  These kids are on track to Calculus in 10th grade. 
As I understand it, these kids will run out of DCPS math to take.  Most will end up having to take math at a local college in 12th grade.

My kid is in the Algebra class this year and it's a fairly serious and intense class.  He breezed through math 7 in sixth grade but is having to work hard in Algebra.  He estimates that a good
half the class are getting B's in the Algebra class.  Those who are doing well in the class are real "math brained kids"---the ones who do math club, etc---not the ones who are just "really smart" in a more 
generic way (if this makes sense). 
In retrospect I probably would not have had his take this class.  I'm not sure what the rush was and I'm not sure every kid who does well in math 7 is cut out to take calculus in 11th grade.  [/quote]

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