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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. It’s more wishful thinking on my part. We love our elementary school and wish that both kids have an extra year in it. But yes I recognize that 6-8 makes more sense.[/quote]
Kids start taking highschool classes in seventh grade.  It’s good to have a year prior to that where they can get used to being in middle school without it tanking their highschool transcript.  Especially since they got rid of grades in elementary school.  Also moving sixth grade to elementary school would limit the advanced math track since you couldn’t have pre algebra in sixth grade then.[/quote]

I think that this a problem, high school type classes jn middle school. It's way too much work and homework. [/quote]
I am assuming you don’t have kids in middle school or highschool.  The highschool classes aren’t any more work than their other classes.  They just are considered highschool classes and your grade matters a little more since it sticks around.  Kids don’t have to take highschool classes in middle school, but it’s a pre-req for things like going to tj or doing the in program. You can’t take ap calculus as a senior in highschool if you don’t take algebra as an 8th grader.  That’s a high school class.[/quote]

Not the immediate PPP. I don't think the issue is too much work and homework; but I don't think it's sound educational policy to push such advanced (two grade levels up) math in middle school. The issue isn't the amount of work, it is an issue of the students not being sufficiently grounded in/mastering the fundamentals. Yes, they can "do" the work and get decent grades; but the lack of true understanding of the concepts is showing up at the higher levels (high school and college - many who took Calculus in high school are being required to retake it in college because of this.)[/quote]

It isn't pushed. Very few kids qualify to take math two levels up. But those who do benefit from it. If your kids don't, that's fine. Why would you take away the opportunity for other kids to learn at their level? [/quote]

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