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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I truly do not understand why people on this board react with nastiness and hostility when someone merely poses a request for clarification and insight from others with more or different experiences.[/b]

OP: Perhaps the teacher was speaking shorthand or perhaps she was just describing her observations of students' paths in the past.  Of course grade level pre-calc leads to calc, at least in my kids' HS -- it's just that it leads to Calc with Applications, a non-AP class, not AP Calc.  I suppose there's a chance your HS doesn't offer Calc with Applications.  My suggestion is to try to find your school's registration card and see what is typically offered, and then consider whether there is a reason to prefer that she be in a position to take AP Calc AB rather than that, non-AP class.  And reach out to your kid's counselor if you need further clarification.

BTW, at our HS at least, I've never heard of anyone refer to Calculus 1 -- it's either Calc with Applications or AP Calc (AB or BC).[/quote]

The bolded isn't what happened. OP doesn't want "clarification" she wants to rant and rave. She deserves everything she got.[/quote]

Yes, it is.  Somebody pissed in your cheerios this morning and you take it out on internet strangers.  You are small and petty.  And DCUM is full of people like you.  [/quote]

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