An 8th grade math student

An 8th grade math student was here today with her teacher “still in park” and nothing new being taught for three weeks now. This young lady scored an “A” in Pre-Algebra last year and the principal told her Mom there was no room in Algebra I for her. So she was demoted with that “A” and assigned to take 8th grade general math! This is another class with no text books and the little work they have covered has been based on work sheets, with have been Pre-Algebra sheets. I took today’s tutoring time to advance her in to graphs with inequalities and solving simultaneous pairs of equations by substitution and elimination methods. This will greatly assist her when they finally place her in Algebra I next year, where she absolutely should have been this year. PARENTS: DO NOT let these teachers and principals get away with this type of sorry use of a brilliant student. “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”