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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What school does your child attend?

Deal offers math acceleration for the handful of kids who need it.  It's about 10-20 per year out of the 550 in each grade.

My kid finished Algebra 2 in 8th and will be taking honors pre-calc at a private school for 9th.  The private gave her/him comprehensive placement exams in Geometry and Algebra 2 and she/he did very well on these tests. 
[b]ELA is another story but that's why we're switching schools. [/b]
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Ugh, can you elaborate more? We're going into Deal in a few short years and offhand comments like this get me worried. [/quote]

Deal ELA is horrific.  My kid read one book in 7th grade.  None in 8th.  A few chapters but that was all that was required.  She/he wrote a paragraph or two all year.  That was it. 
Got about a 100% grade each quarter.  
Foreign language (Spanish) was also really bad.  Kid had to take placement exams for private and is getting no credit for 2 years of Deal Spanish (despite again getting around 100% each quarter).  
Not surprising as they never learned grammar.  The pat tense was introduced (for the first time) in the the last month of Spanish 2 (late May of 8th grade). 
None of her/her friends going to Catholic or private are getting language credit either.  It's a total waste.  
Math is strong and science is decent.  
ELA and Spanish are crap. [/quote]

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