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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math acceleration has gone overboard anyway.  Perhaps those parents don’t want their kids in calculus as sophomores or juniors.  [/quote]

LOL!  We are talking math acceleration in poorly performing middle schools where over 3/4 or more of the entire  grade is BELOW  grade level, many way below grade level in math.  It’s not really rigorous or advanced like in high performing schools.  At some schools it’s probably just grade level math.

That is why it’s so bad to hold your kid back for years just for chance at Walls because you don’t want to move.  Sorry but as a parent, if that is not failing your kid, I don’t know what. [/quote]

You actually think high performing schools always appropriately accelerate kids in math? Lots of kids struggle in HS math because they are accelerated but don’t have strong foundations or needed more time to understand concepts.  This goes for all high performing high schools.[/quote]

Sure but it’s not the school pushing that.  Reality is it’s the parents wanting their kid in the highest math track when they should not be there.

As to if the same advance math classes are more challenging in high performing school vs very poor performing school, of course it is.  You don’t actually believe that the Algebra 1 class at Deal is the same rigor as it is at Eastern.[/quote]

Some middle schools absolutely do push accelerated math.  [/quote]

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