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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle school is a great time for this acceleration, since the rest of their classes are fairly easy with low/no homework.  Once in high school, all classes get harder and grades are more important.

My son is very good at math and enjoys it.  We aren’t in FCPS and they were able to accelerate a lot and quickly in middle school math. Even though he already knew Alg I before 7th he didn’t have an official course on record.  So he did Alg I-precal in middle school.  Alg I/II and geometry were pretty straight forward.  Precalc in 8th was more rocky, but he did fine.  We made the decision to have him take honors precalc in 9th (instead of calculus) bc I felt the acceleration in middle school was too fast and not in depth enough.  This was the right choice. [/quote]

Our school won't allow that sort of thing even if the kid is able. You can only take Algebra in 6th if you had prealgebra in ES., and you can only register for classes in sequence. The best you could do is Algebra 2 in 8th. Maybe if you took summer school you could get to precalc but not sure that rushing through the material  is in anyone's best interests.[/quote]

This our middle school’s “accelerated” option for the especially advanced kids that was off site.   The only other option was to do “advanced” math track at our middle school which pretty much is the Alg I in 8th track (so…not very advanced at all). It worked fine for my child since he was very advanced and got some great exposure.  He was so far ahead that I felt ok pumping the breaks a little when he went to high school [/quote]

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