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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]can someone explain how do your kids get to learn trigonometry in fifth grade? why are they doing it?[/quote]

Parents who sign their children up for things like aops or RSM. There's a reason a bus takes kids to after school prep from the same ES that offers AIM to 5th graders. Their kids from that same school who are taking honor's geometry in 6th. Some families really value education and push their kids. I'm fine with it personally. In fact, why not let kids go at their own pace?[/quote]

which elementary is this?

Btw we value education, and we value math, but trigonometry in middle school doesn't make sense for 99.9999% children. I've known several medalists from math olympiads and none of them did trig in elementary school. There are many, many difficult math problems to master before you move on to the next concept.[/quote]

Cold Spring is the one most often mentioned here.  (If you ignore the posts about fictitious schools intended to foster consternation.)

The school's administration apparently has facilitated ongoing family requests for this for years.  Other elementaries may have interested students, but families can run into variable opposition from school admin; making this happen can be logistically difficult.  Presumably, CSES has a large group of families requesting it to go along with the ingrained pattern.  From some of what MCPS has said, I'd think it's more Algebra in 6th than Geometry, but it's possible some outliers among this outlier situation do that, and there are reported to be a handful of students getting that kind of fourth-tier extra acceleration in one-off situations outside of CSES.

All good if:

The pull came from student interest/well identified capability and not just family push, and

Families and students fully understood the downstream effects (e.g., super-advanced classes that would need to be taken in high school), and

The differential cost of providing the class was minimal/didn't interfere significantly with other programming needs of higher priority, and

MCPS acknowledged it openly instead of effectively hiding it, making sure that similar accommodation was available to students anywhere else in the system (as a PP noted, there really are kids who just love Math; I know an ES student who since at least 3rd grade has gravitated to Math texts -- the adult kind -- when they went to the library), and

MCPS didn't use criteria for magnet eligibility or selection that are directly affected by this exposure (less of a concern, of course, if there were to be equivalent awareness/access across the system).[/quote]

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