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AP Calc has been moved to a co-req for Physics C.

You are conflating - probably intentionally - the motivation level of the student with the motivation level of the parent. And additionally, making the error of confusing advancement for rigor by claiming that having fewer students taking hyper-advanced classes somehow constitutes "watering down" the school. [/quote]

Yes, and that means that kids who enter in 9th grade geometry can at best take AP Physics C Senior year.  They would be ineligible for any of the physics courses with AP Physics C as a prerequisite.

Algebra I in 7th isn't hyper advanced at all.  It's a very low bar.  Any kid bright in math who was in AAP or advanced math should have no problems at all with passing IAAT.  about 15% of the entire FCPS student body qualifies for Algebra.  AAP kids who don't take Algebra in 7th either wanted to take the easier class (not motivated enough for TJ), or they didn't pass the IAAT (not in the top 15% of FCPS students in math).

We'll just have to agree to disagree as to the point of TJ.  I view it as a place to allow the hyper-advanced kids to have access to the hyper-advanced classes, so they don't run out of classes at their regular FCPS high school.  To me, there's no point in having kids at TJ who can barely take advantage of TJ and instead for the most part take classes that would have been available at their regular high school.  [/quote]

I am betting that you're grossly overestimating the number of students who actually take physics classes beyond AP Physics C, and grossly underestimating the number of TJ-unique courses that students take that don't require significant advancement in math.

And no, Alg2 in 9th grade isn't hyper-advanced. We certainly agree there. But it is a point of fact that an ever-growing number of students each year are artificially and needlessly advanced well-beyond that point for no better reason than to enhance their TJ application - and that's not a behavior that the Admissions Office should be rewarding. The school (which, remember, operates completely independently from the Admissions Office) certainly doesn't want huge numbers of students walking in in Calc BC.[/quote]

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