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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spoke to a teacher who teaches Algebra i in middle school and she said only consider Algebra I in 7th IF your kid is interested in Math AND scores in the 95th percentile or higher on the IAAT. She said in her opinion 91th percentile is too low of a threshold. The class uses high school level books, moves fast, lots of homework, and will count on the high school transcript. Kids who are not ready will also struggle in Algebra II because the won't have the foundation. [/quote]

MoCo was the same way when I was there, but they opened algebra to far more students. It's insane how much FCPS builds up algebra as a difficult class when it really isn't [/quote]

It is intended to be this awesome, in depth class.  Taught well it starts to bring together the how and why of everything they've done up to this point in their math careers, along with discovery of really cool abstract mathematical concepts that will set the foundation for the next 4 years of math.  [b]When too many kids who aren't quite ready yet enroll, it gets watered down and is disappointingly basic and just becomes procedural learning. [/b] Then no one benefits and parents cry, "See! It really is easy!"[/quote]

I agree with you that the bolded happens, but my question is why?  Why does FCPS find it preferable to water down an Honors class taken 2 years early than to maintain rigor and just let the kids who don't belong earn bad grades?  Watering down the class just passes the problem on to the next teacher, and ultimately leads to straight A honors kids being poorly prepared for college.  [/quote]

DP.  Where did you get the idea that FCPS has?[/quote]

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