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Citation for this?  I was actually present at 2022 Mathcounts Nationals and spoke with parents and coaches.  And you were.....?   
You're full of shit.  The kids there are accelerated to the maximum level allowed by their school districts.  Most areas are more willing to accelerate kids than FCPS is.  That being said, even FCPS has maybe 10 kids per year taking pre-Calc and Calc in 8th.  Kids would get nowhere in Mathcounts without knowing Algebra, Geometry, and even Algebra II (and number theory, and Counting and Probability, and other stuff outside of the regular math curriculum).  [/quote]

There is a difference between 8th grade precalc and 5th grade algebra.  I would expect FCPS has even more than that in precalc.  LCPS has individual schools with whole sections taking Algebra 2 w trig, though they don't let you take calculus right after that.

I've competed at nationals, no one on my team had algebra before7th grade.  That was a while ago and the contest is tougher now(though the top student scored 12 points higher than 2nd place, and 20 higher than the 5th place kid who moved up to 1st.)  Even this year, I know several kids in Virginia who nearly made nationals last year and thus a decent chance this year, none had algebra before 6th in school.  I think you are giving too much weight to the kids you saw, and the majority are not taking algebra in 5th grade.  There are a bunch of states where 30 score is enough to advance, and some even 20.[/quote]

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