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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The title of this thread says it all.  I’m sorry, but I don’t think parents should have any say as to who is placed in an advanced math class.   There are so kids that actually legitimately meet all of the benchmarks.  [/quote]
Op here— usually I would agree with you but in my specific case being put in a lower math class would have caused significant harm for my son.  His average in math 6 was a 110%, 107%, 100%, and 108% for each quarter respectively.  Obviously math 6 was not challenging enough.  He was sick the day of the sol (recovering from a stomach bug), and scored two points below the cut off.  On his practice sols, he scored a perfect score, a 586, and a 550.  These stats are from his math teacher (I emailed them this past weekend as well).  His math teacher had nothing to do with the recommendation, it was based off him scoring two points lower than the cut off on a test when he was sick.

[b]If you don’t take math as a seventh grader, there are lots of doors that close for you. [/b] You can’t apply to tj.  You can’t do the ib program.  You can’t take intensified science in highschool past freshman year.  That’s a lot of doors to close at twelve, especially if you have a borderline case.  There are ways to “catch up” but those are debatably bad ideas (taking foundational math classes over the summer, homeschooling for a year, etc).

I might be feeding a troll here, but in this case you are just wrong.  It’s a parents job to advocate for their kid, and I do not in any way regret pushing back.  [/quote]
Do you mean algebra or Pre-algebra is required to access those things?[/quote]

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