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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It allows kids to take higher level science and math electives.[/quote]

You mean they don't have those at college? [/quote]

Students who are less advanced before college do not have enough time in 4 years to take more advanced classes in college. [/quote]

Um, no - colleges often make students take their own versions of certain courses anyway.  And besides, what is the race headed towards?  Higher salary?  Grad school (when everyone works at their own pace anyway)?  To what extent is speed sacrificing depth and mastery?[/quote]

It's simple "math". Every course you take before college opens up room in the schedule to take another course deeper into the track or an elective. Colleges often *don't* make students take their own versions, especially students who are highly qualified.
No matter what your student does, some students will spend college time taking courses your student already completed in high school. Maybe calculus, maybe physics, maybe Spanish. And vice versa for other other students.

Some students master material faster than others, and are motivated to spend more hours per week, and more months per year, in study. This is a magnet thread. Some of these kids will go to Harvard and in their first-year take a 2-semester course that packs in 4-semesters worth of Honors curricula in Linear Algebra, Group Theory, Real Analysis, and Complex Analysis.

I would never recommend skimming over a course to rush ahead, but if a student can do well in the material faster, or as an extra elective, then they can open up more opportunity in college.[/quote]

This is a magnet thread...:) duh yeah. that's why the question. what's the hurry? better to go in depth than be in a hurry![/quote]

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