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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Admissions at top colleges has become extremely competitive.  Most students nowadays would be wise to consider a broader range of possible schools that might work for them.  Something that has changed in recent years is that taking 14 AP classes and being heavily accelerated in math is actually no longer considered to be especially beneficial in the admissions process.[/quote]

This. The people obsessing over ensuring their elementary-age kid can take 4-5 AP math classes in high school are simply focusing on the wrong things.

To the parent early who said they don't want their kid cruising through easy classes in middle school: agreed! That doesn't mean that the only way to challenge your kid or prepare them for high school and college is to accelerate them as much as possible. For me, ensuring my kid is challenged means having high expectations for mastery of fundamental concepts (math facts down cold, excellent spelling and grammar, strong reading comprehension skills with both literary and technical texts). It also means they are expanding horizons with music, foreign language, science, and social studies. I want to see lab science in middle school, and project-based history and civics learning that requires kids to go deep, work with a variety of sources, and practice using critical thinking to examine what they are learning. I want see kids reading entire books, and I want to see continue evolution of writing skills across multiple metrics.

But I don't need my kid to take Geometry in middle school. I'm not opposed to it, but it's not important to me.[/quote]

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