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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please tell me students need to get at least a C in Algebra 1 to go into Algebra 2? No? No prerequisite? This is crazy...[/quote]

A 63.5 counts as a D and is all that is required to move forward to the next course.  You get 50% for breathing.  If the teacher grades homework on "effort", that's 10% from copying the answer key off schoology or copying their friend's assignment or just scribbling down gibberish.  Now they only have to get above 50% on a couple classwork assignments all year to get 50+10+3.5 and pass.

Then that student shows up in the next class and it is painfully obvious by day 2 that they don't belong but "my counselor said colleges want to see algebra 2" and "I know my child needs to have 4 years of math to get into college" and now I have 5 kids who can't do 2+7, tell left from right, or point to the x-axis enrolled in a single section of algebra 2 along with 27 other kids, but those 5 take as much effort on my part as the other 27.  I am basically teaching two completely different classes in a single class period, or I'm giving up on 1/6 of the class which will result in dozens of meetings ("Why are so many of your students failing?  Can you show me documented interventions you've provided to support them?  What remediation opportunities are you providing? Are you pulling them into 4th period support and keeping them after school and meeting with their parents regularly and and and...?")

Yes, it's crazy.

And then to counter it the parents of the A/B gen ed kids don't want their kids dealing with that, so they push them up into honors which THEY aren't prepared for, so then the same scenario happens in the honors level classes.[/quote]

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