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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much spite from parents whose kids didn't have the intellectual capability of taking Calculus as a freshman.

Now it's a bad thing a kid is great at math and takes linear eq or diff equations in high school!

How sad.  To the OP, if your kid is great in math, enjoys it, then there is no such thing as "too much acceleration".  Just be prepared for too much envy and resentment.[/quote]

Well it is a bad thing if the kid isn't the one driving the process.  Every kid I've known at our HS who got to BC in Junior year (we don't have MVC and you have to get approval to do BC before AB) is a kid who is always studying, never socializing at all, has no Sports or ECs that are not STEM related---these were kids whose parents are largely driving it all (my one kid knew 3 of them, and the kids were mostly miserable and not allowed to have a life beyond academics).  So yeah it is not normal to be 3-4 years advanced in math.  Kids need time to learn the material and there is plenty of things to do to enrich math/stem if they are interested without just pushing calculus (and college level math) down to 9th grade.

ANd I say this as a parent of a kid who moved between 5th and 6th grade.  My kid was 2 grade levels ahead.  The new district didn't advance kids until 6th grade.  I could have easily put them in Alg 1 in 6th grade, but I wanted them to develop socially in a new environment, and I didn't want to have to figure out how to get them to/from the HS for 8th grade math (Algebra 2) and what to do for junior/senior year math (no MVC).  So they took 7th grade math/pre Alg again in 6th grade---didn't learn anything new until the last month, but they were in class with 7th/8th graders (as a new 6th grader who knew nobody).  But it let them adjust to the totally new life they had without stress of a bad teacher for totally new material (potentially) and with students who they wouldn't see the next year (mostly 8th graders if they took Alg 1).  Sure my kid could have done that and we would have figured it all out---but they are at a T40 school as an engineering major, who started in Calc 3 and did just fine.

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