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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An update: after a meeting with the principal and head counselor where the parents of rising 8th graders made their concerns known, the school made the decision to offer Algebra 2 in person this year. A great outcome and much appreciation for the flexibility and openness KMS showed. It really is a very good school. [/quote]

Great. Kids who really need resources get fewer so that your UMC snowflakes aren't inconvenienced in the slightest by the consequences of your own poor choices. Yay![/quote]

You have such venom for advanced students…why? [/quote]

Shortchanging math does no good and is emblematic of education being about ‘winning’ and not about learning. There is no reason to cram a year’s worth of fundamental math into six weeks. Until there are real immediate consequences for people doing so (as opposed to the later gaps that might not be noticed for years), people will continue to do so.[/quote]

Actually a more likely outcome is that as more people take it routinely, middle schools are more likely to make it available on a regular basis. It is , for instance, always available in person at schools like Longfellow and Cooper. This is the direction of travel. [/quote]

It's funny how some pyramids advertise the availability of summer geometry and others have no clue. For anyone wondering why seats at TJ have to be allocated by MS, this is a great example of how FCPS allows some schools to push students and other schools to pretend options aren't available [/quote]

It’s not pushing to let the kids know a summer class is available.[/quote]

The OP said that they were surprised because they thought more kid were taking summer geometry. It turns out that a decent number of the Kilmore kids taking geometry in the summer are expunging it from their report cards and will be taking it this term. That tells me that a good number of kids or parents or both realized that this was a crazy path or too hard a path and unnecessary.

Summer school should not be pushed to accelerate a child academically, especially when you are trying to cram a years worth of math into 5-6 weeks. Summer school is mainly meant to retake failed classes or classes kids did not do well in. It isn't meant to accelerate.

DS is taking Algebra 1 at Carson this year, I doubt that he is going to have Teachers telling him to take Geometry this summer. The kids that I know who have discussed doing this were telling their parents that their friends were doing it so they wanted to do it. It wasn't the Teachers, it was peer pressure. My friends told their kids no and both the kids I know who were told no ended up at TJ with Geometry completed.

The only ones I know who have done Geometry in the summer and didn't hate it were kids who had taken Geometry through RSM or AoPS and the class was essentially checking a box for them. These kids still didn't like taking it in the summer because it meant that they had less time to do something that they wanted to do that as fun.

I don't believe for a second that Counselors or Teachers are pushing Geometry in the summer. This is a parents who think their kids need to be further accelerated or kids listening to friends who are taking the class. The schools that have a larger number of TJ focused kids end up with more kids taking this path in the summer mostly because they think it will give them an admissions advantage in some way.

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