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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I truly hate the defensive DCPS parent mentality that everything here is perfect, so sad and pathetic to see the clearly non-DCPS trolls fetishizing accelerated everything as if Calc in 11th grade as the floor.

News Flash: kids at a giant suburban high school with dozens of other accelerated classmates won't get into an Ivy or Top 20 maybe not UVA.

Keep telling yourself that accelerated math or  winning spelling bees or graduating high school at age 15 is a hook.  It's not.  America doesn't prioritize test scores or accelerated math.  [/quote]

Correction the discussion was Cal in 12th was the floor.  Cal should be offered in 11th grade and 10th grade and majority of schools offer neither.

Newsflash I don’t care about my kid getting into an Ivy or top 20.  I went to a state school and am successful.  College admissions is not the endpoint of high school.

I do care if he is bored to death in class and not learning and not being challenged because the school system DGAF about the high performers.  This math discussion is just a small piece of the systemic problem in DCPS of low standards and low expectations. [/quote]

Every high school that offers calc will allow a 10th grader to take it, if they have the prerequisites. And DCPS routinely allows outliers to take those prerequisites independently on an accelerated basis. You’re just mad that there’s no lockstep program that forces a large portion of the student body to accelerate to calc in 10th based on 6th grade math placement. [/quote]

I don't think s/he's saying that. 
What all this does point to again and again, is that parents need to wake up and navigate their children's public K-12 adventure or else the result will be mediocrity. And mediocrity in America's public education system these days is lower than ever, and falling.

The teachers or counselors will not inform you of your options nor their ramifications. And if they do, it's too late. How convenient.

[b]Take this calculus class question - which is a question on curriculum optionality that you need to make for your child DURING 6th GRADE. [/b]
You and your capable 12 yo kid don't know quite yet if they are going to push hard on stem or math or clearing their courseload for some passion. 
But you should know, that by doing pre-algebra twice in middle school (mediocre track - not high track, not low track), you will NOT have an opportunity in high school to take further math, or statistics, or an independent project if you are on that track. Barring summer school to accelerate out of the 2nd pre-algebra or to complete geometry.

So wake up and plan accordingly. Also wake up and see what parents with older students are already doing. [/quote]

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