[Gabz]

Southern school systems like those in Virginia think chilluns are entirely too immature to handle algebra until 9th grade.

Gee, in NYC in the 70s algebra was 9th grade math - even in Catholic schools. My daughter in a VA public school took algebra last year in 8th grade.

[muawiyah]

Things change slowly ~ when I got here they still distrusted addition and subtraction.