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If you don’t want advice, don’t post on a public forum. All I’m saying is that I would’ve had major resentment towards my parents and would be a heck of a lot worse off if they had taken the attitude of “go for the easy A, don’t challenge yourself.” Actually, if they had said that I would’ve worked harder just to spite them. Why wouldn’t you encourage your child to work to their potential? I’m honestly really confused by this mentality of just scraping by that everyone seems to have, what happened to being the best you can?
She’s not signing up for calculus, she’s signing up for pre algebra. It is beyond easy to drop back once you’re on the accelerated track. Why not even let her try, if she’d be “bored to tears” in regular math? She can decide to take calc or not when she gets there.
Care to cite that? I would be very surprised if it were true for kids taking Calc in 11th grade or earlier. These kids are already clearly very good at math, and Calc shouldn’t be too much of a hurdle. It certainly wasn’t true for me and many other students I know.</p>