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[quote=Anonymous]One of their primary defenses of the new framework is that people don't need calculus.  Now you and they are claiming that calculus is available without acceleration to everyone.  Everyone will be accelerated, including the kids who previously would have been deemed not eligible to take algebra in 8th grade.
The reality will inevitably be the classes will be slowed down for everyone, and kids who would have been advanced will be less advanced.

The usual path is pretty much every kid who is in honors classes takes calculus in senior year.  This will no longer be the case under the new framework.  Not just because different classes will be offered, but these honors kids will end up in the standard pathway, not accelerated, because of the false labeling that it is algebra/geometry/algebra 2.  These kids will find themselves unprepared for calculus and precalculus.

And of course, unlike decades ago, algebra in 7th grade is more common, with LCPS having the majority in some middle schools taking it.

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