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dated a girl from the niagara falls, canada area once. I dont know if it was just their school or the whole province but she told me they gave students the option to go either a "university" route where they would take algebra 2, physics, AP courses, etc or a "college/career" route where they would take more hands on/life skill focused classes. I feel like this is a much better system for schools to adopt. Trying to push college on a bunch of kids that dont want to go and have no business going to college is kills any chance at forward momentum academically because of the resources and time youre having to spend to get those lower level kids there.

we have that here in Louisiana. dunno why yall act like we dont.

requiring basic algebra and geometry and financial math is not "forcing college"....its basic education that most smart kids could finish by 9th grade if given the chance.

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Geaux Hawks

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Posted on 4/3/24 at 10:44 am to lsu777

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requiring basic algebra and geometry and financial math is not "forcing college"

basic algebra and geometry are fine. Alot of states require a third math where the only option in a lot of districts is basically algebra 2, which is not a needed course to be successful in life. And im saying that as a math teacher that loves teaching algebra 2.

the district im in (and getting ready to leave from) has a relatively good career route option. we still force kids to waste time on classes they dont need like algebra 2 for the sake of "well they need it to go to college." That's my issue. When I've taught algebra 2 I wasnt able to go as far as I felt like i needed to for my higher performing students because of how many students that had no business taking it were in there.

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