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Having said that, the issue becomes the accelerated math. Elementary AAP covers 1.5 years of math in a school year, which means the SOLs don’t align with grade level after 4th grade. For example, my kid was in 5th grade last year, but took the 6th grade math SOL (and scored “pass-advanced”, since we are using that metric to determine what is “advanced”). [b]You can’t take a General Education kid who scored “pass-advanced” on the 5th grade math SOL and drop him into 7th grade math and expect him to thrive without the additional tutoring to catch him up…which this board condemns[/b].

Likewise, you can’t take an AAP kid who didn’t score “pass-advanced” on the 6th grade math SOL when he was in 5th grade and say he isn’t “advanced”, since he is already working a grade level ahead.
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The bolded is untrue.  My kid's gen ed advanced math class had kids jump up from regular math in 5th grade or even in 6th grade.  They were fine.  The math curriculum spirals a lot.  Kids who score pass advanced on the SOL are showing that they have enough mastery that they do not need another spiral of the material.  A few kids took regular math in 5th grade, scored pass advanced in 5th, and then jumped to advanced math (7th grade math) in 6th.  Did they qualify for Algebra in 7th?  No.  Did they do fine with 6th grade advanced math, and were they well prepared for M7H in 7th?  Absolutely!

For your second point, if a 5th grader took the 6th grade math SOL and did poorly (failed or even less than a 450), it is likely that FCPS policies would not allow that kid to drop down to regular and essentially repeat 6th grade math the next year.  It would probably be in the child's best interests to repeat the year of math, if FCPS allowed, since there's no point in "being advanced" if the kid doesn't have adequate mastery of the material.  [/quote]

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