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A comment on California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide. Parent comment

Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by spurgu on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:15PM (#29325403)
I would say practical reasons. How would you structure those lessons? You'd need a lot more resources to be able to tailor everyone's path like that.

It would be great though. I loved going to school for the first 4 years when we were ~30 people in the whole school (spread over 1-4th graders) - the teachers were able to address individual needs. Then I went to fifth grade where were were 35 people in the class. It just went downhill from there.

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by mixmastamyk on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:12PM (#29325847)
Middle and high school already have separated classes, no?

I once took a computer-repair class at a local school district adult school. It was self paced, and despite being bored as hell during high school, I crushed the repair course at like 4x the normal speed. Because I could. There was literally no one to stop me.

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by candiodari on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @05:39AM (#29328689)
I think you'll find the point is that they'd love to get rid of those separated classes.
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