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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6th grade AAP teacher here. If your child scored 91 percent or higher and is getting all 4’s on their report card, they should take Algebra. If they scored 91 percent or higher but is getting mostly 3’s in 7th grade math, they should take 7th Grade Honors because there may be gaps. I have students who scored well on IOWA but are not getting all 4’s on 7th grade content.  I will say the majority of the kids who did do well, I expected to. There were a couple of surprises. If you are unsure, ask your child’s teacher what they think. [/quote]

What if a child is getting all 4s on 7th grade content, advanced pass SOLs but missed the 91 cutoff by a few percentage points? DC didn’t have any prep and had an issue with time. [/quote]

So if they scored a 90 and pass adv on the SOL they can appeal. Anything less than a 90, most middle schools won’t budge. I have a couple of stydents who scored in the high 80’s but get all 4’s. Unfortunately, they are probably stuck taking 7H next year. I will say this. Parents need to think towards high school when making a decision. [/quote]

Do you mean the four credit requirement? [/quote]

No, they mean a 4 on the report card. ES kids in FCPS are graded on a scale of 1-4 with a 4 being the highest.

The poster is saying that kids with 3's on their report cards should not take Algebra 1 H in 7th grade regardless of their IAAT or SOL scores because a kid with 3's on their report card has areas that they have not mastered in math and will likely struggle with Algebra Honors in 7th grade. [/quote]

I know that. I was referring to her quote “Parents need to think towards high school when making a decision”. [b]If a child takes Algebra I in 7th, they will need still need to take four credits of math in high school.[/b] That puts them on a path to fairly advanced math by senior year. [/quote]

I think they can stop any time they have 4 credits of HS level math, regardless of when they took it. One of my friends has a daughter that took Algebra I in 6th grade. She's planning to take math in 9th grade, and then call it done, having fulfilled the requirements for math.[/quote]

But she wasn’t in high school when she took algebra 1. So that doesn’t count toward the credit for taking math classes in high school. Which means she will still need math classes for all 4 years while in high school.[/quote]

That's what I'm saying. The requirement is fulfilled by taking HS level math courses for 4 years, REGARDLESS of when they were taken, according to the parent (HS level courses taken before HS go on the HS transcript). This makes sense, because there are kids even more advanced than her (One of the Regeneron kids from last year or the year before was doing Calculus of some sort in 7th grade, IIRC), and there are not a lot of math sequences that can accommodate that level of acceleration, if you insist that the kids must take 4 years of math in HS.[/quote]

This is not what our school told us. If you take algebra in 7th and geometry in 8th those grades are figured into GPA because they are high school classes but you still need to take four math credits IN high school. [/quote]

There is no way for those schools to hope to accommodate a student taking calculus in 7th. That kid will be deep into a university's math offerings well before they get out of high school. [/quote]

There are very few of those kids. There were a few 8th graders taking pre-calc at our MS but I believe it was through independent study. [/quote]

It shouldn't matter. It would be horribly unfair to some kids that they're required to take 3-4 years of higher level math than the majority of the student population, in order to graduate. Anyway my friend's kid is going to stop math in 9th grade; they were told by the HS (Oakton, IIRC) that she would have met the math requirements for the advanced diploma.

This is the math course sequencing. Nowhere does it say that those courses must be taken in HS.

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/graduation-requirements-and-course-planning/high-school-course-sequencing/mathematics

Additionally, "Students receive credit toward graduation for high school courses taken and passed in middle school. These courses count toward credits in the required sequences as well as toward the total number of credits required for graduation and calculation of the grade point average (GPA). " (from https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/node/3141)

It's all about the number of credits you need to graduate in different subjects. When you take HS level courses, you earn the credits. They don't not count because you took it when you were 10, instead of 15.
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Your friends might want to talk to someone about college admissions. Colleges might look on a kid who stops taking math in 9th grade as not taking the most rigorous path which can impact college admission. It is one reason some parents choose to wait on Algebra until 8th grade so that their kid is not taking a ton of extra math classes and can still be considered on a rigorous path for college applications.[/quote]

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