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Please stop with the “these kids” generalizing statements about DCPS. My kids are both now in middle school and have attended title one ES and MS EOTP. Both of them were doing multiplication and long division by mid elementary school and had 100% mastered it before leaving for middle school. Are there some kids is their classes who have not mastered it? Sure. But it is part of the curriculum and the majority of kids have.

At this point, all middle schools are supposed to offer algebra by eighth grade, sounds like a couple may not yet but in the majority do.

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If you pull the OSSE CAPE/PARCC spreadsheets, you can see the list of schools offering Algebra I and Geometry tend to vary year to year. Probably based on student interest. I think it's worth it to offer it even for just one kid, but of course we can acknowledge this has its cost financially and in the school's bandwidth.

ITDS recently announced Geometry for 8th graders, but in a small school like that it required thinking through the entire middle school math sequence, staffing, and scheduling and logistics. It was eye-opening to see how much goes into a change like this. [/quote]

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