After teaching high school/college math from 1979 to 2020 and spending the last 4 years as an itinerant tutor, I can testify that the public schools in my county are not teaching grade level math in all grades through 8th. Obama’s Race To The Top required all students to take Algebra I & II as well as Geometry. The records that I see tell me that very few kids leaving 8th grade have the math proficiency needed to start those courses.
After teaching high school/college math from 1979 to 2020 and spending the last 4 years as an itinerant tutor, I can testify that the public schools in my county are not teaching grade level math in all grades through 8th. Obama’s Race To The Top required all students to take Algebra I & II as well as Geometry. The records that I see tell me that very few kids leaving 8th grade have the math proficiency needed to start those courses.