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> Especially because it forced my high-school math teacher to think more about preparing students for college-level work.

I believe high school students who take college courses can be a great asset for their high school for this very reason.

As a junior in high school I took college algebra at a community college in the evenings. As a result of the conversations with my math teacher, she made many changes to the subjects she covered in her pre-calc and algebra 2 classes.