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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid spent hours on Khan Academy even when he was in elementary school.  Not because anyone made him but because he loved math and thought about it a lot.  He would sit and be quiet and then announce some math thing he had figured out even when he was in early elementary.  We never paid for extracurricular classes but he sought out every  free resource he could find from library books to Khan Academy to clubs at school and free, application based summer programs.[/quote]

My now college kid was in a class where 5 of the AAP 6th graders were bussed to the local middle school for Algebra.

Of thos 5 kids:

#1 was a math genius who sounds like your kid.  Other kids played video games for fun.  He did Khan Academy.  I recall hearing him tell my kid "I just love math.  I could do math all day every day if they would let me."  His dad was a computer something and mom was a math expert,  so it seemd to run in his family.

#2 & #3 Were geniuses. Period. The two smartest people I have ever met.  Smarter than most high school kids in 6th grade.  They are in college and still geniuses.

#4 was brilliant, not quite a genius like the other 2.  This kid had a tiger mom, but would have been brilliant with or without her.

#5 Was the stereotype of asian kid with tiger mom doing everything possible to get the kid into TJ.  But even so, this kid was still heads and shoulders smarter than almost everyone else.  The plus was he worked so hard at everything.  Prepped or not, hard work should have merit.

None of these kids were kids who only made it to Algebra 1 in 6th/Algebra 2 in 8th because of test prep.  These kids were amazing in math and STEM.

And to think that kids like these 5 would not get into TJ,  while kids who are just taking Algebra in 8th are getting in this year is just awful.

What an anti merit, anti hard work, anti excellence move by our asian hating school board members.[/quote]

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