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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can your kid take just BC?  Most kids don’t do AB then BC.  [/quote]

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Every school , public and private, in our area mandates AB then BC and has for over 20 years. The top dozen or so students at a subset of these schools takes multivariable in the high school taught by phD: stem public, 2 of 4 privates, and the engineering magnet.
Math course tracking is evaluated in the context of the high school. AB then BC is not a negative because the curriculum is separate, not repeating. [/quote]

That is very strange to us here in Fairfax County. It is definitely viewed as repetitive and "less than" for a student to take both Calc AB and BC. (Yes, yes, I know that someone out there has a kid in FCPS that took AB and BC and then got into MIT, but it is definitely not the norm.)[/quote]

What about for an English major or PoliSci kid? I imagine they’re given more latitude. Most students who go into humanities don’t even go as far as BC.  So the idea of them taking both AB and BC is above and beyond what their peers are doing. [/quote]

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