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course sections question
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Mar 18, 2009 4:46 PM
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Yesterday, we had a math department meeting with our principal and guidance counselor who are in charge of the master schedule. With the Math A and B curriculum we grouped our students into two different options. They either took A in a year and a half or two years and then followed it with B in a year and a half for the first group or B in two years or business math for the second group. We now informed that our students would no longer be separated and all students would take algebra, geometry and algebra in single years. We feel this is unfair to our stronger students and some of our weaker students won't make it through. Of course we also have the problem of being a small school, graduating on average 40 students a year, thus we don't have many sections. I am just curious to how other schools are grouping their students. We are trying to make the case that our college precalculus and calculus courses and even our algebra 2 course will suffer with everyone being mixed in ninth grade. Oh and they may put 2 or 3 accelerated 8th graders in the mix. I would appreciate any feedback I can get on this.
You can respond to me off the listserve at lmckenna@fortannschool.org.
Thank you,
Laurene McKenna
Mathematics 7-12
Fort Ann Central School
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