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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is entering 9th grade and received a merit scholarship to a private school. She has all A's in 8th grade at a good public school and takes honors classes. Before we learned about the scholarship, she was recommended for all honors and AP classes at our public high school. We were very confused that the private school is only placing her in two honors classes next year. Is that typical? In public school, many kids take all honors. [/quote]

At DD"s private schools, they discourage people from taking too many honors classes but do permit 1-3 students per year to exceed the recommendation and take more.  I think, at this point, there's only one person left in the grade who has taken every "honors" class possible.  If you're coming in fresh, it's hard to know whether your daughter is at that level or not.  For students who had been there in middle school, DD's school had a better sense of who can handle more.

And, yes, it was a shock for my wife and me as public school students who took every honors class without issue.[/quote]

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