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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So admittedly I am far removed from my own high school experience and my kids are still in ES, but the MS/HS math pathways surprised me a bit- do kids no longer take geometry and trig?

Pre-calc in 9th also seems a bit crazy to me (again this is coming from someone who graduated in the 90s where "accelerated" meant pre-calc in 11th and AP Calc in 12th).  But I don't understand what some of these students are meant to take in 12th if they've already had two years of calculus by then.[/quote]

When I went to a W school in the 90s, the accelerated path was 11th graders took Calculus AB then took BC in 12th grader.  When I glanced at the slides yesterday, it looks like that path is still there.

Anything above that, students went to Montgomery College for the math courses back then.[/quote]

MC has a lot of rules for doing advanced classes and told me no for my child.  They wanted her to start back to Calc 1, saying that the Calc in MCPS may not be good enough.  No way.  They were really nasty about it.[/quote]

There is a Math placement test, so perhaps your child did not perform well on that exam???[/quote]

No there isn’t.  I asked.  [/quote]

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