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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't be mad at kids or parents for utilizing a path that FCPS has made available.  IMO, it would be much better if FCPS expanded pathways for kids to take Algebra in 6th, providing that the kid truly is ready.  [/quote]

I am not mad with the parents. I do think that the parents are responsible for understanding what the next class looks like before they enroll their kid in an accelrated class that is not within the normal pacing. There are not enough students to have a complete Algebra 2 class and the online class was offered. Now schedules at the MS have been disrupted to appease the parents who choose to accelerate their kids in a non-standard path. That annoys me.

Teachers and Admin are stretched thin, mucking with Teachers schedules and prep time because 8 parents decided that their kid had to take a year long class in a 5 week period so they could be ahead in math is unreasonable. I only hope that a Teacher didn't loose a planning period or that other kids are not being added to a large section of Geometry or Algebra to make space in the schedule for Algebra 2. 
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If some middle schools offer it routinely, that means it IS within the range of normal.[/quote]
I think there's a difference between something being normal and something being the 'norm'. At places such as Cooper and Longfellow, there have long existed significant numbers of highly accelerated kids via parallel year round math enrichment pathways since early elementary. Clearly, many of those kids have nothing to learn from repeating a class that they took all year outside the school system, so it makes sense to offer the next level up so they can continue to learn. While this is just 'the norm' at these schools for various reasons (which are not worth going into due to the # of posts/wars already dedicated to these topics), it is certainly far from normal, where normal is defined by many/most of the other schools in the county and nearby areas not having enough students to fill even half a class.[/quote]

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