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[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. Most of the math teachers in mcps aren't math majors. And it completely shows. Partly why I'd want my kid to take MV in college, not mcps high school. [/quote]

FYI, most teachers have degrees in education. Very few were math majors, but there's always a few to cover the more demanding courses.[/quote]

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