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Anonymous wrote:Take algebra in 9th and you can still take calc in 12, if you want to. But mcps only requires 3 years of math anyway.

My child is terrible at math and squeaked into algebra in 8th grade. She is better at it than she was at the math that came before, at least. It doesn't matter that much.

It would be nice if more schools offered things like consumer math and other math to kids who aren't strong in math as you don't need calculus or even algebra 2 in life.

Einstein offers AP Statistics which I encouraged my kid to take (she didn't). That seems like super useful math!

Statistics is not that easy for a kid who struggles in math, especially AP. I meant more things like how to manage a checkbook, basic finances, basic investing, and just general life skills.

Anonymous wrote:Y’all scared off OP a long time ago.

Nah, I'm still here. Taking it all in.

-- OP

Y’all scared off OP a long time ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Take algebra in 9th and you can still take calc in 12, if you want to. But mcps only requires 3 years of math anyway.

My child is terrible at math and squeaked into algebra in 8th grade. She is better at it than she was at the math that came before, at least. It doesn't matter that much.

It would be nice if more schools offered things like consumer math and other math to kids who aren't strong in math as you don't need calculus or even algebra 2 in life.

Einstein offers AP Statistics which I encouraged my kid to take (she didn't). That seems like super useful math!

Anonymous wrote:Take algebra in 9th and you can still take calc in 12, if you want to. But mcps only requires 3 years of math anyway.

My child is terrible at math and squeaked into algebra in 8th grade. She is better at it than she was at the math that came before, at least. It doesn't matter that much.

It would be nice if more schools offered things like consumer math and other math to kids who aren't strong in math as you don't need calculus or even algebra 2 in life.

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Anonymous wrote:Take algebra in 9th and you can still take calc in 12, if you want to. But mcps only requires 3 years of math anyway.

My child is terrible at math and squeaked into algebra in 8th grade. She is better at it than she was at the math that came before, at least. It doesn't matter that much.

Not true. "NEW STATE REQUIREMENT FOR STUDENTS GRADUATING IN 2018 AND LATER:
Students graduating in 2018 and later must be enrolled in a math course in each year of high school. This
may result in students earning more than 4 credits in math for graduation."

It used to be three years and it wasn't highlighted to parents.

Anonymous wrote:Take algebra in 9th and you can still take calc in 12, if you want to. But mcps only requires 3 years of math anyway.

My child is terrible at math and squeaked into algebra in 8th grade. She is better at it than she was at the math that came before, at least. It doesn't matter that much.

Not true. "NEW STATE REQUIREMENT FOR STUDENTS GRADUATING IN 2018 AND LATER:
Students graduating in 2018 and later must be enrolled in a math course in each year of high school. This
may result in students earning more than 4 credits in math for graduation."

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Your child may be embarrassed not being on the same math track as a lot of his peers.

I'm not OP, but I'm going to take some inspiration from her and ask that you spell out exactly what you mean by "a lot of his peers.

You can't possibly mean "kids at his school" because we've established that there are kids at his school in Geometry. So, what exact qualities would you say OP's child has, and what qualities to his peers have?

Let me blunt. His “peers” are kids who are also well behaved, come from MC/UMC families who care about education, and do extracurricular activities (band, sports). Also kids who he is in honors history with (who fit the qualities) above. If the kid attended a parochial school k-8 and his parent cares enough to come on this board, he is probably a clean-cut, good kid. So the kids who are in honors/Ap classes are his peers. My child was in Algebra 1 but all other classes honors in 9th grade. She felt behind her peers. Don’t be obtuse.

It is useful to hear from someone with firsthand experience. I don't thnk that clean-cut=good kid, though

Or MC/UMC = Good kid or low income = bad kid which seems to be the implication.

Most kids will take Algebra in 7/8th. Algebra in 9th now good or bad is the lowest math offered.

How the heck is Algebra the lowest math offered in 9th? My kids go to a better high school than these (in a different state) and for 9th grade we have: pre algebra, algebra 1 part A, Regular Algebra 1, Honors Algebra 1, regular geometry, and honors geometry. Maybe the reason why the DCC schools are low performing is because they don’t remediate enough.

Clearly your school isn't better if that is what they offer in 9th.

The big issue with down county schools and the kids is many of the elementary schools ignore the ESOL kids (at our school the kids often translate for the teachers which is unacceptable and ESOL services are minimal) and kids with LD's and other SN except a few are not getting the supports they need. They ignore any reading issues till around 3rd and its then much harder for those kids to catch up and the quality of the teachers/education is really poor. So, those kids get passed on to the middle schools which have a lot more supports and help for these kids but by then most of the kids have given up. They are good kids who didn't get their needs met in elementary school.

Take algebra in 9th and you can still take calc in 12, if you want to. But mcps only requires 3 years of math anyway.

My child is terrible at math and squeaked into algebra in 8th grade. She is better at it than she was at the math that came before, at least. It doesn't matter that much.

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Your child may be embarrassed not being on the same math track as a lot of his peers.

I'm not OP, but I'm going to take some inspiration from her and ask that you spell out exactly what you mean by "a lot of his peers.

You can't possibly mean "kids at his school" because we've established that there are kids at his school in Geometry. So, what exact qualities would you say OP's child has, and what qualities to his peers have?

Let me blunt. His “peers” are kids who are also well behaved, come from MC/UMC families who care about education, and do extracurricular activities (band, sports). Also kids who he is in honors history with (who fit the qualities) above. If the kid attended a parochial school k-8 and his parent cares enough to come on this board, he is probably a clean-cut, good kid. So the kids who are in honors/Ap classes are his peers. My child was in Algebra 1 but all other classes honors in 9th grade. She felt behind her peers. Don’t be obtuse.

It is useful to hear from someone with firsthand experience. I don't thnk that clean-cut=good kid, though

Or MC/UMC = Good kid or low income = bad kid which seems to be the implication.

Most kids will take Algebra in 7/8th. Algebra in 9th now good or bad is the lowest math offered.

How the heck is Algebra the lowest math offered in 9th? My kids go to a better high school than these (in a different state) and for 9th grade we have: pre algebra, algebra 1 part A, Regular Algebra 1, Honors Algebra 1, regular geometry, and honors geometry. Maybe the reason why the DCC schools are low performing is because they don’t remediate enough.

Hi, "better high school" out-of-state person. This has nothing to do with the DCC. Algebra 1 is the lowest math offered in 9th in MCPS. MCPS's goal is to have all students complete Algebra 1 by 8th grade.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/math/hs.aspx

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Your child may be embarrassed not being on the same math track as a lot of his peers.

I'm not OP, but I'm going to take some inspiration from her and ask that you spell out exactly what you mean by "a lot of his peers.

You can't possibly mean "kids at his school" because we've established that there are kids at his school in Geometry. So, what exact qualities would you say OP's child has, and what qualities to his peers have?

Let me blunt. His “peers” are kids who are also well behaved, come from MC/UMC families who care about education, and do extracurricular activities (band, sports). Also kids who he is in honors history with (who fit the qualities) above. If the kid attended a parochial school k-8 and his parent cares enough to come on this board, he is probably a clean-cut, good kid. So the kids who are in honors/Ap classes are his peers. My child was in Algebra 1 but all other classes honors in 9th grade. She felt behind her peers. Don’t be obtuse.

It is useful to hear from someone with firsthand experience. I don't thnk that clean-cut=good kid, though

Or MC/UMC = Good kid or low income = bad kid which seems to be the implication.

Most kids will take Algebra in 7/8th. Algebra in 9th now good or bad is the lowest math offered.

How the heck is Algebra the lowest math offered in 9th? My kids go to a better high school than these (in a different state) and for 9th grade we have: pre algebra, algebra 1 part A, Regular Algebra 1, Honors Algebra 1, regular geometry, and honors geometry. Maybe the reason why the DCC schools are low performing is because they don’t remediate enough.

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Anonymous wrote:

Your child may be embarrassed not being on the same math track as a lot of his peers.

I'm not OP, but I'm going to take some inspiration from her and ask that you spell out exactly what you mean by "a lot of his peers.

You can't possibly mean "kids at his school" because we've established that there are kids at his school in Geometry. So, what exact qualities would you say OP's child has, and what qualities to his peers have?

Let me blunt. His “peers” are kids who are also well behaved, come from MC/UMC families who care about education, and do extracurricular activities (band, sports). Also kids who he is in honors history with (who fit the qualities) above. If the kid attended a parochial school k-8 and his parent cares enough to come on this board, he is probably a clean-cut, good kid. So the kids who are in honors/Ap classes are his peers. My child was in Algebra 1 but all other classes honors in 9th grade. She felt behind her peers. Don’t be obtuse.

It is useful to hear from someone with firsthand experience. I don't thnk that clean-cut=good kid, though

Or MC/UMC = Good kid or low income = bad kid which seems to be the implication.

Most kids will take Algebra in 7/8th. Algebra in 9th now good or bad is the lowest math offered.

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+1, nicely said. Unfortunately, some of us needed to be blunt early on but were trying to be nice about it. There are lots of benefits to parochial schools, especially the structure, teaching style and text books but there is a huge range within all the schools and some are more advanced academically than others.

You weren't trying to be nice, FWIW. You were using racial and class-coded language to signal that you thought OP was "one of you" and so was her child.

OP rightfully called you on it and asked what metric you were using to determine in-group status. Turns out it was because she could pay for private school up until now, and becuase she bothered to post on DCUM, as though the internet wasn't free to everyone.

Honestly, it was refreshing.

No, I don't care about race and we go to a school where my white kid is a minority but the kids that are in Algebra in 9th are the kids struggling.

+1, nicely said. Unfortunately, some of us needed to be blunt early on but were trying to be nice about it. There are lots of benefits to parochial schools, especially the structure, teaching style and text books but there is a huge range within all the schools and some are more advanced academically than others.

You weren't trying to be nice, FWIW. You were using racial and class-coded language to signal that you thought OP was "one of you" and so was her child.

OP rightfully called you on it and asked what metric you were using to determine in-group status. Turns out it was because she could pay for private school up until now, and becuase she bothered to post on DCUM, as though the internet wasn't free to everyone.

Honestly, it was refreshing.

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Your child may be embarrassed not being on the same math track as a lot of his peers.

I'm not OP, but I'm going to take some inspiration from her and ask that you spell out exactly what you mean by "a lot of his peers.

You can't possibly mean "kids at his school" because we've established that there are kids at his school in Geometry. So, what exact qualities would you say OP's child has, and what qualities to his peers have?

Let me blunt. His “peers” are kids who are also well behaved, come from MC/UMC families who care about education, and do extracurricular activities (band, sports). Also kids who he is in honors history with (who fit the qualities) above. If the kid attended a parochial school k-8 and his parent cares enough to come on this board, he is probably a clean-cut, good kid. So the kids who are in honors/Ap classes are his peers. My child was in Algebra 1 but all other classes honors in 9th grade. She felt behind her peers. Don’t be obtuse.

It is useful to hear from someone with firsthand experience. I don't thnk that clean-cut=good kid, though

Or MC/UMC = Good kid or low income = bad kid which seems to be the implication.