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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly I would start looking at private.  My W-L 9th grader left PRE COVID because she was so checked out and unchallenged.  She could space out in class, do no homework and still has straight A's.  She's now shocked that she actually has to work for good grades.  If she's bored now I would absolutely start looking at private school.  [/quote]

We had heard differentiation actually happens in high school, with intensified/honors for multiple core subjects not just math. Why did that not help? I remember AP history being pretty intense for example. [/quote]

She was in AP and intensified classes.  Still unchallenged.  My older kid was also in AP, intensified and IB classes throughout all 4 years.  She was plenty challenged but she's more of a good, not gifted student.  Younger kid is gifted. [/quote]

What private school offers a more challenging curriculum than AP, IB, and intensified classes? It has been my understanding that most area public schools offer more advanced and challenging classes than private schools, and that people choose private for a more personal touch and other perks rather than rigor.

Interested for my gifted, advanced 5th grader.[/quote]

In normal times this is likely, but I don’t know if the pandemic deficit will eat up faculty time and energy making up, and the intensified subjects will be phoned by exhausted teachers.  Or do the intensified teachers only teacher honor students etc?[/quote]

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