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[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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They are probably on par with the top students in the US, I would guess that the top students in the US are stronger then the top students in Mali. And I doubt that a citizen of Mali is better positioned then an average student without Calculus in the US.

The reality is, a very small percentage of the world population will attend, never mind graduate from college, about 7% of the global population. About 2.5% of the population of Mali holds a college degree. Maybe think before scoffing at 30% of US White Men holding a degree, that is far above the global percentage. 32% of Europeans hold a college degree or the EU equivalent. 20% of China's population hold a college degree. No offense, the US is doing just fine.

Most jobs don't require a college degree. Jobs in the trades don't require one. Service jobs don't require one.

So pardon me for not being impressed that the select few in Mali who are able to attend school take advanced classes. Talk to the US when Mali attempts to educate all of it's kids and not just the few who can afford it.

The biggest educational difference in the US vs the rest of the world, even Europe, is that the US believes it should provide an education for all of its citizens AND has extended that to non-citizens. There are major areas for improvement but I'll put the top 25% of American students up against the top students of other countries and bet the US would do just fine. The comparisons between the US and the rest of the world look badly because the US includes all of its test scores, not just the kids who test in and can afford an education. That is the real difference. [/quote]

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