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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Telling kids to spin their wheels for a learning nothing, and then to double up later to catch up, is totally insane.

Schools should offer a much deeper enriched honors curriculum. But they don't. The teachers who teach Math 6 don't understand math deeply and so can't support advanced learners. So the choice is either accelerate, or paper over the problem at home, or brain rot.

And if you ask a Chinese parent why they want to "accelerate" their kid, they'll explain they are just trying to keep up with the curriculum from back home, not accelerate. 
STEM professional; almost all my coworkers did acceleration and enrichment. [/quote]

This part is definitely true. [b]Most of the math teachers in mcps aren't math majors[/b]. And it completely shows. Partly why I'd want my kid to take MV in college, not mcps high school. [/quote]
Are you talking about ES? Otherwise, you have no idea of what you're talking about. [/quote]

I do actually. I have friends and 2 close family members who are math teachers (in mcps, hcps, ffx). They were math education majors, not math majors. It's quite different. They didn't take many of the classes I took (as an applied math major in undergrad). What they learned was very important but also very different from what's focused on in higher level maths. Actually my SIL (who teaches high school algebra 2) got in by a teaching program similar to TFA in another city. She was an anthropology major.

Its fine, public schools have a hard time recruiting teachers anyway, the last thing they need to do is make it even harder to be a teacher. But really challenging classes like MV, DM, LA should be taught by people who liked the subject enough to study it further. 
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At UMD, Math Education is a math major.

You're barking up the wrong tree. Differential Equations and Topology knowledge isn't what's missing from K-12 math teachers.
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