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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Calculus during ninth grade should not be an outlier at many (most?) high schools. And also enough math classes to fill up the rest of high school should be available. Stop arguing why obvious math nerds should be held back or shamed. You should be wondering how many more kids are being left behind because of lack of opportunity coupled with low expectations from people such as those complaining on this board.

Unless we go back to the stone age, our kids in America are competing with all the kids in the world for colleges, jobs, and opportunities. Parents who supplement only do so because the schools aren't providing the service even though it can be argued that they are legally obligated to do so. Why would you try to shame them and hold them back when it's obvious that most kids have the capacity to learn far more than the low-bar high school curriculum?

It's crazy how sports coaches push their athletes to excel while teachers are told to hold their kids back by their own parents. What's funny and sad is that so many parents don't know that many of the highest performing high school students are also some of the best athletes and musicians. It's why the wealthy ones send them to private/prep schools or are homeschooled. Real homeschooling and not the run around in the woods all day nonsense. [/quote]

There is more and more evidence that the way we do sports in the US is damaging physically and mentally to kids. The age for sport specific injuries is getting younger and younger because kids are over training for a specific sport too early. The mental damage from the intense training is causing issues. Just saying, balance is important. That is why we support DS doing math competitions and spending extra time on math but are thrilled that he thinks it is crazy to give up his summer to get farther ahead in math. His MATHCOUNTs coaches and buddies thought it was crazy he didn't take Geometry over the summer, he thought that idea was nuts. He wanted to go camping with his friends and hang out at the pool.

[b]Calculus in 9th grade will always be an outlier, very few kids should be taking Calculus that early. I know a handful who were in Calculus in 10th grade, one was homeschooled during COVID. FCPS is actually unique in allowing so many students take Algebra in 6th and 7th grade. Most schools across the country see Algebra 1 in 8th grade as accelerated[/b]. [/quote]

+1 to this. There also isn’t really a point. Aside from being a mathematician, there are only a handful of math classes you even need past calculus for other STEM degrees/jobs (let alone anything else) and they can easily be fit into a college schedule. You can try to argue it’s needed for boredom but you only get to calculus in 9th if you spent a ton of time outside of school on it. So it’s alleviating a self-created boredom by racing so far ahead - you can’t expect schools to cater to that.[/quote]

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