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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given Woodward will host special program for Drama, Art, Media etc having 35-40% FARMS will result in high achiveing kids leaving for WJ or Stem program in Wheaton. It will result in fewer kids who can take higher level courses and they will have no choice.[/quote]

art and music kids take a lot of AP classes[/quote]

They do but they take less frequently higher level STEM than kids who are focused on STEM. Kids focused on STEM would have to leave Woodward to get decent options given more than third of school will be FARMS. It will create problem for kids who are left behind.[/quote]

Isn't MCPS committed to offering AP Bio, Chem, Phys or an IB equivalent in all high schools?[/quote]

Take for example, MCPS is not going to offer anything higher than Cal BC so if you take Pre-algebra( around 20% kids take it RM Cluster, I don't know about other clujsters) in grade 6 then you will be doing Alg1 and Alg 2 in 7th and 8th. Then Prec cal and Cal in 9th and 10th. You will be forced to take random filler courses in math in grade 11th and 12th if school does not offer courses beyond Cal. That's the case in many high poverty HS right now unless they host STEM magnet. [/quote]

You skipped Geometry in 8th. So kids who take algebra in 7th get to Calculus by 11th. Most end up taking AP stats or Calculus BC senior year.[/quote]

No. PP was correct. This year’s grade 5 kids in compacted math will take pre Alg in grade 6. Then in grades 7 and 8 they will be the first to go through the new Integrated Math pathway that MSDE suggested as a 3 year path, but MCPS is forcing all kids to do in 2. The Integrated Math pathway replaces stand alone Alg 1, 2 and Geometry. So my current 10 year old will be doing preCalc in grade 9![/quote]

For a smart kid, precal is fine in 9th but most schools don't have MVC and Linear Algebra so there is no point at those schools to speend things up and cutting out Geometry condensing this seems like a really bad idea given overall math scores.[/quote]

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