I think the challenge is the schedule. The math period must be fit into the daily schedule and not to interfere with other courses.

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who did this who is really a math genius. He attended AIM virtually in 5th and then started Algebra 1 in middle school. It is almost certainly school dependent, so check with your school, OP.

I wonder which school is that?

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Anonymous wrote:It depends on your school.

Virtual Academy is going away.

You can skip any math class if you're at a WPES.

What is WPES?

Wealthy Potomac Elementary School. Where all the best students go!

It's not uncommon for students at those schools to skip math. One ES even has 6th grade AIM to support the class of advanced 5th graders.

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Anonymous wrote:It depends on your school.

Virtual Academy is going away.

You can skip any math class if you're at a WPES.

What is WPES?

Wealthy Potomac Elementary School. Where all the best students go!

Oh, hey, look—there you are!

This poster has an ongoing thing about widespread math acceleration (beyond the standard compacted path) that occurs only at “wealthy Potomac elementary schools,” despite never identifying a specific school or offering any evidence of this happening. They pop up on every post about elementary-school math.

At this point I think it's more satire than real.

It's satire, but, by hyperbolizong the issue and getting folks to zone out as a result, it's meant to detract from any proper notion of inconsistency across the system and the need for MCPS to address that.

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Anonymous wrote:It depends on your school.

Virtual Academy is going away.

You can skip any math class if you're at a WPES.

What is WPES?

Wealthy Potomac Elementary School. Where all the best students go!

Oh, hey, look—there you are!

This poster has an ongoing thing about widespread math acceleration (beyond the standard compacted path) that occurs only at “wealthy Potomac elementary schools,” despite never identifying a specific school or offering any evidence of this happening. They pop up on every post about elementary-school math.

At this point I think it's more satire than real.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on your school.

Virtual Academy is going away.

You can skip any math class if you're at a WPES.

What is WPES?

Wealthy Potomac Elementary School. Where all the best students go!

Oh, hey, look—there you are!

This poster has an ongoing thing about widespread math acceleration (beyond the standard compacted path) that occurs only at “wealthy Potomac elementary schools,” despite never identifying a specific school or offering any evidence of this happening. They pop up on every post about elementary-school math.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to do that anyway?

This. The obsession with insane math acceleration in this county knows no end it seems.

It's because our math curriculum is massively dumbed down versus other countries. It's not acceleration in a global context.

Let me know if you ever find facts supporting this claim.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/

Disaggregate racial groups and the differences will magically disappear.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on your school.

Virtual Academy is going away.

You can skip any math class if you're at a WPES.

What is WPES?

Wealthy Potomac Elementary School. Where all the best students go!

It's not uncommon for students at those schools to skip math. One ES even has 6th grade AIM to support the class of advanced 5th graders.

And, as stated in response to the constant "WPES" posting in every such thread, such acceleration isn't confined to wealthy areas like Potomac, but it is supported in only a minority of schools, with MCPS central admin doing nothing to ensure local fidelity/rigor, the result of which is inequitable differential access to such across the county's similarly-able student population.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on your school.

Virtual Academy is going away.

You can skip any math class if you're at a WPES.

What is WPES?

Wealthy Potomac Elementary School. Where all the best students go!

It's not uncommon for students at those schools to skip math. One ES even has 6th grade AIM to support the class of advanced 5th graders.