>My recommendation to kids who are great at math and thinking about taking college classes is, don't. If the math classes at your high school are too easy, ask

>My recommendation to kids who are great at math and thinking about taking college classes is, don't. If the math classes at your high school are too easy, ask your teachers if you can skip straight to the AP exam I wonder if this sets the teacher up for reprimand though via 'no child left behind' type stuff. I wonder what the repercussions would be if a student complained that someone else was getting more attention (advanced work in this case) which received attention from the administration. My fiance is a high school math teacher and just a few weeks ago she had a student claim she was bullying him, which got administration involved with a parent-teacher-administrator-student conference. When the student was asked how he bullies her "she makes me stay awake and do my work in class" which got her off and got her an apology from administration but she was legitimately nervous about it prior to the meeting because that's the state of public education now. Anecdotally, she's doing her best just to get her students capable of doing the assigned math as they will just pop out their phones when she's not looking (or when they think she isn't) and use some app on their phones to tell them the answers (PhotoMath I think) so they aren't even getting the foundations they need to continue to advanced maths. At her current school someone wanting advance placement would be a pretty rare exception. She has multiple students that will write profanities as answers, will draw cartoons as answers, will write things along the lines of "I don't know I want to die" "this doesn't matter" etc the past few years. Seeing the 9 year old in the OP article seems miraculous to us both given the state of things at some schools.