[raymondh]

In our case, the main push to accelerate is to get more knowledgeable teachers.

While experimenting with number sequences in Excel, our child said, "I found e, 2.718281828". When he went to show off his discovery, his two math teachers said that they had never heard of it before.

[whimsicalism]

We pay far too little to get people who are very strong at math.

This sort of lack of knowledge was not uncommon in my urban school district, the only teachers who were truly qualified were all doing it as essentially charity work after their high-powered careers.