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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Taking Cal in 11th grade is just as common as taking it in 12th grade. Hopefully both sets have their reasons.

The outliers are the kids never taking it and, to a lesser extent, the kids taking it 10th grade or earlier.   Both sets here absolutely have their reasons (they love math & are good at it, or they hate math & are bad at it).

All sets have to take 4 years of math. Most kids take progressive courseworks, Some left tail ones take applied math. Oh well. [/quote]

What are you talking about? In general? In a particular school district? In your imagination? [/quote]

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