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<p>I believe this was traditional – until juniors started showing up in AB Calculus and then having nowhere to go as seniors. Thus, the two-year sequence was invented.</p>
<p>The system worked fine when only seniors took calculus.</p>
<p>It makes no sense to take your best math kids and put them in an easier course.</p>
<p>If the school can’t find a teacher to teach something beyond Calc BC, then there are plenty of online Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Multi Variable courses.</p>
<p>Of course, concurrent enrollment in a local community college or university is an option.</p>
<p>Alternatively, there’s plenty of other math (number theory, calculus-based probablility and statistics, graph theory, counting) that could be done.</p>
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<p>I think the OP should advocate for math competitions regardless whether the kid is placed in the advanced math class or not. Math competitions don’t really go along with the math sequence in school. Many kids do really well in math competitions although they are not in the regular advanced math classes. I have seen many 6th graders perform better than 8th graders in the MathCounts contest. The teacher who recruites mathletes should let whoever wants to compete join the school team and base on the practice results to select the team to represent the school. Furthermore, the math competitions in HS have nothing to do with calculus because HS calculus does not help students to excel in math and cannot be used as a benchmark to measure the mathematical ability of students.</p>
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<p>I believe the AB and BC deliniations relate to AP branded classes. We have Calc but not the AP Branded variety and you can reach it by senior year if you accelerate at any time in middle school (which in our district is 6-8th grade). Most college bound seniors choose either Calc or AP Statistics in our system depending on what they are considering for a major in college. The kids that hit Calc in 11th generally pick up a college math course if that is their interest level.</p>
<p>Before I went to administration, I had posted my thread and got a wonderful response from everyone. Today I got news that school decided to take my DS in the Pre-Algebra class. They first confirmed with him in school, about his willingness and readiness to be in that class. So he was very excited and he called me to let me know the results. He will have to mke up about 8 weeks of work but he can do it. </p>
<p>Even though this has happened for him, I am going to join forces with a new school board candidate (who is pushing for the transparency and integration in system) and work with the district for the openness for parents like me in the future. </p>
<p>So from the bottom of my heart I thank you all for your suggestions and support. I am sure many of you were rooting for the child and thank you for that too.</p>
<p>Have a great day.</p>
<p>Congrats to your son and to you! Well done. I think it’s great you will be working with the district to help others in similar situations.</p>
<p>How does you son feel about the issue? It sounds like your pushing him mighty hard.</p>
<p>Congrats, manali70! That’s good news. I hope the makeup work isn’t too onerous.</p>
<p>Sounds like a good outcome, you also sound confident he can catch up and he sounds happy.</p>