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[quote=Anonymous]There may be more opportunities for acceleration in magnet  programs in Monty County and then eventually Blair, than in private.  Most of the privates are so small that accelerating kids by more than a year or two (ie ending up with BC calc in 11th grade and multivariate calc in 12th) isn't possible. Sidwell is very rigid and doesn't accelerate anyone beyond that sequence and up until a few years ago resisted this, had no kids above BC Calc in 12th, but more recently they have adjusted their math sequence to match other schools better. GDS has allowed truly extraordinary kids to accelerate many years ahead, one child in my daughter's grade took calculus when she was in 7th or 8th grade, she went up to the high school for math after about 5th grade.  One or two others did the same after her, but these were truly extraordinary math students, not just kids parents thought were more advanced and pushed.  One was something like 3rd in the worldwide math Olympiad. both left GDS after 11th grade to begin college (I believe both at MIT).  So GDS seems potentially the most flexible, but for kids not that far off the curve, there is no "tracking" until 7th grade, but at least some of the math teachers do a good job of differentiating work within the class. 
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