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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no internally consistent argument to keep math tracking if you make every kid take AP classes.

I think they should keep leveled coursework but I would expect if they remove it for humanities you can make the exact same case for math. And that they will makes these changes at Deal as well.[/quote]

If you put a kid in a math class that's several years ahead of where they are, they're not going to get anything from it. Similarly if you make a kid repeat material they know very well. In more reading and writing-based courses, there's more ability for kids at different levels to still benefit. You can have a kid reading at a 9th-grade level and a kid reading at a 12th grade level both reading Romeo and Juliet and writing a paper about it, and they're both at least potentially going to get something out of it in a way that's going to be much tougher with that kind of discrepancy in a math class. [/quote]

Fairfax county and Montgomery county school leaders would disagree with you. They are both eliminating any meaningful math tracking.[/quote]

I think eliminating math tracking and forcing all kids to take AP Calculus senior year are two different things.  Try teaching AP Calculus to students who don’t know Algebra- it’s a complete waste of time and incredibly frustrating and demoralizing for those kids.[/quote]

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