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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I appreciate all of the thoughts given.  What is clear to us is that it isn’t an easy situation to navigate.  What makes it most challenging, perhaps, is the fact that there are so few other instances of other children and families in the same situation.  We were told from the beginning that he is a true outlier.  The county has seen a few other children like this, but not many.  [/quote]

5th grade algebra isn't that much of an outlier in Fairfax.[/quote]

County wide, only a small handful of kids per grade level are jumped ahead more than a year.  Being one of the top 3 or 4 kids out of 14,000 would make OP's kid an outlier, but not at all an anomaly for FCPS.  [/quote]

Algebra is officially a 9th grade class.  It is more than a handful of kids per school who are this far ahead.  Many have 7th grade algebra 2 years ahead, and even 3 years ahead there's probably at least 100 in the county taking algebra in 6th grade.  [b]There have been lots of posts on this forum about 5th grade algebra, so it seems it is not that unusual[/b], probably 10 every year across the county.[/quote]

Yeah, we should take at face value bragging posts on an anonymous forum. Also anecdotal, [b]I’ve been told by proud parents that their 3rd graders are doing Algebra when in reality they just know how to solve a linear equation.[/b]

My advice for placement is to find a good diagnostic test like MAP, and target a grade where she’s at least in the 90th percentile. If it is too high she would not be challenged enough, if lower she might struggle when there’s additional stress from being in an environment with older kids.[/quote]

So true. When I told my kid's school he was taking Algebra in 3rd grade, their reply was: "your kid is not that smart" and "all 3rd graders in our school take Algebra". As an immigrant, I thought public schools in this area must be so superior, until I found out we were not talking about the same "Algebra" :roll:  [/quote]

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