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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid had a smart, good at math, friend who wanted to be with the most advanced math kids in our HS so he took pre-calc over a summer so he could take Calc as a junior and then MVC as a senior.

This did not work out for him. He ended up not having an adequate foundation for Calc, had to drop down to AP stats as a junior and then was stuck trying to figure out what to take as a senior because he already had taken pre-calc but didn’t have a solid enough base for calculus. His desire to be in the top ultimately resulted in him being behind the group he would have been in if he didn’t try to get ahead by taking a class during the summer.[/quote]

I would say that many of the FCPS kids who take geometry in the summer and succeed are kids who are doing outside enrichment. They have all been exposed to geometry concepts long before they took the class. The summer class is more jumping through a hoop then it is learning the material. Kids who take the geometry summer class, many because they have classmates doing it so they want to keep up with their friends, without that background find the class hard and a large percentage either drop the class or expunge the grade and retake it.

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