Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My neighbor pushed her kid into algebra in 6th grade. Lots of tutoring and discussions with the school months in advance. Kid placed into it though and did well. Attempted geometry over the summer before 7th grade and did horribly. Kid needed to retake geometry in 7th, and that ended the parents pushing the kid ahead. The mom tells me she now regrets what they did in 6th.
Why did they do this in the first place?
I keep telling you guys this there is 0 point
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My neighbor pushed her kid into algebra in 6th grade. Lots of tutoring and discussions with the school months in advance. Kid placed into it though and did well. Attempted geometry over the summer before 7th grade and did horribly. Kid needed to retake geometry in 7th, and that ended the parents pushing the kid ahead. The mom tells me she now regrets what they did in 6th.
Why did they do this in the first place?
I keep telling you guys this there is 0 point
Anonymous wrote:My neighbor pushed her kid into algebra in 6th grade. Lots of tutoring and discussions with the school months in advance. Kid placed into it though and did well. Attempted geometry over the summer before 7th grade and did horribly. Kid needed to retake geometry in 7th, and that ended the parents pushing the kid ahead. The mom tells me she now regrets what they did in 6th.
Anonymous wrote:My friend’s daughter did this. The parents were not involved. She essentially never got anything wrong in math, including perfect scores on the SOL. She has no outside enrichment.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know that AAP students skip one level of math. But has anyone heard of an elementary student skipping two levels of math? For example, a fourth grader who is in an fifth grade Advanced math class and thus is taking sixth grade math. DC says there is a student who is from a lower grade level that attends DC's AAP class for math. I thought grade-skipping was not allowed in FCPS, so I wonder if this an ad hoc case or a 2e case or something else. The school certainly doesn't advertise this pathway as a possibility.
Thanks.
My kid had a 4th grader in her 6th grade AAP math class.
OP - Thanks - so it sounds like FCPS definitely allows kids to skip math levels. I wonder if that's parent-driven or school driven. I assumed that the AAP track was the most advanced track available until middle school, but it looks like I'm mistaken. I also don't want to rock the boat (e.g. be one of those parents who yell at the AART for not recognizing their DC's abilities).
If you look at the Virginia team for 2019 Mathcounts: https://www.mathcounts.org/sites/default/files/2019%20National%20Competitors_2.pdf
you can see that there's an FCPS elementary school student on there. I wonder if Westbriar Elementary facilitated that student's math education, or if he had to to sit through math classes that were certainly covering concepts he already knew.
Thanks,
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know that AAP students skip one level of math. But has anyone heard of an elementary student skipping two levels of math? For example, a fourth grader who is in an fifth grade Advanced math class and thus is taking sixth grade math. DC says there is a student who is from a lower grade level that attends DC's AAP class for math. I thought grade-skipping was not allowed in FCPS, so I wonder if this an ad hoc case or a 2e case or something else. The school certainly doesn't advertise this pathway as a possibility.
Thanks.
My kid had a 4th grader in her 6th grade AAP math class.
Anonymous wrote:I know that AAP students skip one level of math. But has anyone heard of an elementary student skipping two levels of math? For example, a fourth grader who is in an fifth grade Advanced math class and thus is taking sixth grade math. DC says there is a student who is from a lower grade level that attends DC's AAP class for math. I thought grade-skipping was not allowed in FCPS, so I wonder if this an ad hoc case or a 2e case or something else. The school certainly doesn't advertise this pathway as a possibility.
Thanks.