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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the point of doing it? If you all think your child will have a better chance at a top 15 then you are mistaken. Its not going to help. My DC took Algebra in 6th, pre calculus in 9th, MV, AP stats, linear algebra all by 12th grade. In addition to other AP science classes. He was waitlisted and then denied at MIT as well as other Ivy League schools. He was accepted to UMich, Georgia Tech etc.. but so were others who didn’t take all these advanced math classes. Most students at our large public who were accepted to Ivy schools were legacies and athletic recruits who did not take any such advanced classes. So chill.. [/quote]

You don't get it. My kid just wanted to not be bored in class. Accelerated math is the ONLY class where she doesn't pull out a book to read.

I couldn't care less about colleges. She'll do well wherever she goes.

You really must understand that different kids have different needs.[/quote]

Yeah this was the issue we had with our child's fifth grade class, where the teacher refused to recommend anyone for Algebra the next year.

The teacher wouldn't respond to parent questions about why they weren't recommending students for Algebra but during class would tell students that Algebra was too advanced and hard and no one should be taking it in sixth grade.

Part of the issue with the leveling we had is that towards the end of the marking period, our kid was doing nothing and when we asked why, they would respond saying that their teacher said that their class moved faster than the rest of the county and finished the curriculum for the marking period.  So they didn't have to do anything until the next marking period.

We're talking about a whole class, not just a couple of students in a class and this was a couple of weeks too.

So success in high school is a concern.  But we need for our kid to be challenged and learning during class and is why we wanted them on the accelerated path compared to the one they were already on.[/quote]

The ms decides not the es teacher. [/quote]

They do.  But at our kid's MS they also say they base things 90 percent off of the 5th grade teacher's recommendation.

So it's harder to have your child placed in Algebra as a 6th grader if the fifth grade teacher didn't recommend it, at least at our school.[/quote]

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