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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is in the private school forum?…

My public school kid is completing Algebra II/Geometry in 7th grade.  (Normal at her school is 8th grade.)

Glad I’m not paying $50k a year to be several years behind where she is now.[/quote]

Glad I can easily afford to pay $50k per year for tuition. I also don’t need to post on a private school forum pretending that taking Algebra II/Geometry in 7th grade is a flex.[b] My private school children will take Calculus BC in 12th grade.[/b]  They don’t need to take math electives their senior year (or load up on APs (because they’re not offered at our school)) to be competitive.  That’s what public school students have to do.

I hope that your children enjoy the education for the unwashed masses they’re receiving.
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that would suck if your kid is into STEM.  [b]Most [/b]STEM oriented kids in our public take BC Calc in 11th, and MVC/diffeq in 12th.[/quote]

They really don't. How many sections are there of MVC/DIFFEQ in your school? And how many kids per section? And how many in the whole senior class? Because even if I assume that there are 3 sections (which I doubt) with 30 kids in each (which I also doubt), and maybe 400 in the whole class, that's still less than 1/4 of seniors who are on this track, and I guarantee that there are at least 150-200 kids out of those 400 who consider themselves STEM kids.

And I really can't even envision more than 30 kids being on that track, unless you're specifically talking about TJ or a magnet school, in which case, I will point you to the thread title of "normal for 9th grade math."[/quote]

At our middling public middle school, about 20% of kids will take algebra in 7th which leads to calc in 11th. [/quote]

This is what I did 25 years ago. Good grades on a 9-11th grade transcript is solid. I saved various goofy electives for grade 12 last semester plus took AP Stats.

In college continued my Chinese.Asian studies language as a major plus econ/math major. [/quote]

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