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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here whose child is in 5th grade and taking Algebra.  In response to previous comments, he is taking the class at Langston Hughes Middle School.  So no, we are not in a high socioeconomic pyramid.  The county assessed him in 1st grade before placing him in the 3rd grade AAP class.  They saw the need then, and that has been his track since. [/quote]
Based on the VDOE SOL results, there were 4 different FCPS elementary schools that had a 4th grader take the 7th grade math SOL last year.  I'm the PP with the kid on the same track years ago, who posted about the logistical issues with skipping ahead.   The VDOE data shows that most of the recent years, 0 or 1 kids in the county were skipped ahead.  Perhaps FCPS is in the process of identifying more kids who can handle this level of acceleration and facilitating the logistics of aligning classes.  If so, that's great.  I found FCPS pretty unworkable when my kid went through the system years ago.

The moral of the story is that if you have a kid who is off the charts and would benefit from this level of acceleration, push your principal to see what the plan is for making the classes align so your kid isn't constantly pulled out of language arts block to take math.  [/quote]

This year in FCPS, there is at least one 10 year-old taking multi variable calculus in high school (McLean High School).

There is another 10 year-old who earned her admission to TJ, and she didn’t just take the minimum level math (Algebra I, non-honors) either.

I am surprised how many doubt the ability of tweens and teens to learn advanced and accelerated math.[/quote]

People don't doubt the abilities of individual, highly gifted kids to handle this stuff. They doubt the abilities of kids who have been pushed without much interest on their own part (there is a place for giving a gentle nudge to kids with demonstrated interest of their own). There are both and to act like every kid is one or the other is disingenuous.[/quote]

But you have no idea which kid is in which category.

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