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At some point the answer should be to support students just taking a class or two at a local university. This is totally reasonable.

• testfoobar 4y ago
  This is in fact how the programs are structured at many high schools with dual-enrollment. Most top high schools in the Bay Area offer such options for Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra. What Palo Alto is doing is dropping formal support of the program - in practice that has meant bringing college professors to school sites and providing these classes without fees for students. Without formal support, students have to pay and have to commute.
• jakeinspace 4y ago
  My senior year math course (after Calc BC in grade 11) was discrete math at the community college across the street. Felt a little embarrassing for us to take up half the classroom, sitting next to adults, and realizing that most of us high schoolers were towards the top of the class. But other than that unfortunate situation, I think it was a good system, and if anything, cheaper for the school district than finding someone to teach in-house.
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• UncleEntity 4y ago
  I went to community college in California and there were high school kids in some of my classes. Not that I was taking particularly hard classes or anything so I think they were just getting a leg up on the prerequisites for later on.
  • lokar 4y ago
    My school only offered one language and I wanted a different one. So I went to the nearby public university.