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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the obsession on this board with taking Cal by 10th grade. I was always good at math, but I didn't take calculus until I was a senior in high school. And I got into an ivy league school where I graduated with honors. My kids are younger so I'm sure there's plenty to say about DC middle schools and high schools that I don't understand, but I truly don't understand why this is something people harp on here.[/quote]

Once your kids are older you will understand. [/quote]

+1.  Math 20 years ago is nothing like math today.  Cal in 12 th then was advance, not so today.
Same with college admittance.  If you are going to any decent school at all for math, engineering, science, etc you only get to Cal by senior year, you are at the bottom. it’s a basic requirement.  Other kids will be ahead and taking it easy in college while you will not.

The end. [/quote]
A good friend teaches physics at a school DCUM loves. He says very many of the kids who have been pushed into acceleration have no idea how to use calculus as a tool to solve problems.   They have kids withdraw from physics classes and retake calculus, then do the major requirements a year late. It’s a real problem.  [/quote]

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