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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You want him to develop a good foundation. This is not the end of the line. It's about making sure he has everything he needs to be successful in math.[b] My husband had an A average in his electrical engineering major[/b]. I was more advanced than he was in math-he was not accelerated at all. It's a marathon, not a race. Nobody cares, but a few competitive parents whether your kid is in honors in middle school. If he wants to do STEM, what matters is he knows the material well and enjoys what he does so he can be in it for the long haul.[/quote]

If dropping out of honors means he ends up a year or two behind by high school (in FCPS, the top 15-20% will be taking algebra II as freshman, the majority will be taking geometry and the non-honors in 7th will be taking algebra) he would never have a change to get into that a major that competitive [/quote]

Yes he would still make his way as an EE or any type of engineering or CS he wants.   There are PLENTY of schools where majors are not "direct admit" or not "impacted".  Just look outside the T40-50 schools.  There are kids who succeed as engineering majors who never took calculus in HS or only took "regular Calc" and no AP calc (so they start college in Calculus 1 and go from there).

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