Now all kids are forced to take algebra.
Why?
Some kids can handle it.
Some need business math.
I think most students could learn algebra if they had learned arithmetic properly. My 12-year-old son had not previously demonstrated much math aptitude, but we drilled on fractions until a light came on, and then he whizzed through the rest of 6th grade math. Now he and my 16-year-old daughter, who is behind due to health problems, are both doing Algebra I.
James is doing better, because he’s not as distractable.