<p>With 4 math credits required in h.s you have to be careful about the track you start on in middle sch. The brightest students in S's grade were grouped in a "scholars class" for middle sch. Every class was accelerated including math (pre-alg. in 6th, Alg. in 7th, and geom. in 8th). Most all of the kids did fine in m.s but when they got to h.s. some "hit the wall" after pre-cal honors in soph. year. By that time, it was apparant that all were not truly accelerated math students. They still needed 2 more math credits for high sch. but did not feel capable of doing AP math and so ended up taking non-honors math courses to fulfill the 4 year requirement. On their transcripts, it appeared that they were going backwards when the real probelm was that they had accelerated forward too early on.</p>