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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^My kid was the 99th percentile kid in math, was put on advanced track in MS (his ES offered nothing in the way of advancement, enrichment), and he did not do out-of -school extra math. Clearly, other kids in his classes were though because some are a year or 2+ ahead of the advanced math track in HS now. We live in a town with a top 10 school and apparently kids who have exhausted the math options in high school are able to take additional math classes there. Clearly they are geniuses and gunning for admission to top colleges I guess.

In middle school my kid on the so-called advanced math track did: Math 6/7 in 6th, Alg 1 via zoom/full Covid year, and Geometry H in 8th back in person again. In geometry he had a few struggles on a few units, but overall he did fine. And I don't see a few struggles necessarily as a bad thing.

As it turns out, [b]his k-8 school district has now eliminated that advanced MS curriculum and now it's alg 1 for all in 8th.[/b] And odd because the high school that the k-8 district feeds into still has advanced math classes for seniors. So now kids who want to advance will need to take Geometry (on their own/online I guess) along with alg 1 in 8th. The high school is considering offering a summer geometry program for those kids as well. But that doesn't sound ideal either to me. [/quote]
Time to vote out your (democratic?) school board?[/quote]

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