Thank you all for your quick and helpful replies. I am going to meet with DDs teacher this week. I am leaning toward starting the AOPS books (and I'll have to look at alcumus, as I have not yet done so before) and seeing if DD can 'catch up' to where her teacher thinks her geometry class is this tri-mester. I'll see if the teacher is willing to assess her at the end of the first trimester in geometry and make a final determination then as to whether or not she could switch over..and based on the algebra assessment, get DD tutored for those areas that she shows weaker knowledge. I'll contact the few private schools that DD is looking at for HS to see if they'd take independent geometry, and contact our local public HS, which is probably fine with it. Interestingly, we're seeing a big push away from the cram down of math, even in private schools here. The primary reason DD's school added the 2nd year algebra I/intro to geometry class was due to feedback from the two private (well known and respected) schools here for which it is a feeder, as all these straight A algebra/geometry kids start right into honors Algebra II and all of a sudden struggle, and don't have the foundation they thought they had. After this year, our local public MS from which my child transferred will no longer offer geometry at all....
My daughter is not PG. She is HG though. How 'gifted' do you have to be to be assured that your average smart child's brain development is sufficient in 7th grade to truly comprehend algebra? But I digress...thank you all again!
