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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former math teacher here. Anyone who tells you that 100% in Math in 7th grade is easy don't listen to them. Its an impressive performance. I taught 7th grade at both top and public middle school before switching career to be an actuary. 100% as a final grade is not common.

Congrats to your daughter. [/quote]

Disagree.  It’s easy and schools often offer kids opportunities to do corrections.  Any kid with math aptitude isn’t going to be in 7th grade math in 7th grade [/quote]

My school district does not allow any 7th grader to take 8th grade and higher classes in 7th grade.[/quote]

That’s extremely unfortunate.  [/quote]

I know. I went to school in Mali (West Africa). I took calculus 1 in 9th grade, in one of the poorest country in the world. By the time I came here for college I had already taken courses in calculus 1 to 3 and physics 1 and 2 and Intro to Organic chemistry. And I wasn't even an honors student. These classes I listed were standard classes.

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Are you a dense? [b]Only 36% of Mali is literate. [/b] One of the lowest literacy rates in the world.  Clearly Calc 3 in high school isn’t “standard” when the majority of the country has little to no education at all [/quote]

And yet...the people in Mali who have the resources and can afford to send their kids to school and college are getting better eductaion than most people in USA.  SO, shame on USA for wasting resources and not taking the education and the rigor of education of their children seriously.  50% of people voted for Trump. This is the leval of awareness and stupidity of people in USA.  And the most priviledged group of people in USA - White males - only 30% have gone to college.  PATHETIC.

In the global workplace and with the advent of AI - the pp from Mali has better chances of getting a job than most Americans.  Bloody illiterate entitled fools!!
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Please tell me more about the amazing colleges in Mali.  Are you sending your kids there? [/quote]

Why should I?   :lol:

This country is ripe for the taking and all its institutions and safeguards are failing.

Why would I not enrich, accelerate and expand their knowledge and skills outside of the school day on my own so that my kids are better positioned to exploit the opportunities that will come from the Fall of the American Supremacy?  Or, only the global billionaires should benefit? [/quote]

Do whatever you want, but let’s not pretend Mali provides its citizens exemplary education.  That’s laughable [/quote]

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