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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Generally, writing is better in privates but math and science is better at Haycock/Longfellow/McLean.  It depends on your priorities. [/quote]

This has long been the case but private schools are catching up on STEM while public schools don't really seem to be catching up on writing.  [/quote]

Which privates track as aggressively as publics in math? [/quote]

Maybe Nysmith, BASIS, and Idea Vations but those are all schools that sell themselves on accepting gifted students and/or STEM rigor. Most private schools do not have the same focu on math and science as the public schools. That has to be saying something because science in ES is seriously lacking. The private forums seem to think that the schools focus much more on depth of math exposure in ES but that there is little differentiation offered for any subject. It is easier to deal with the lack of differentiation in English and Scoial Studies, you allow kids to read different books and can see that some kids are stronger writers, then in math.

Public has the option for acceleration for kids that does not exist in most private schools because it has the numbers and more Teachers so they can set up classes like Advanced Math and offer Algebra 1 H in 7th grade. That said, private schools tend to have excellent college results without kids taking DE math classes as Juniors and Seniors. [/quote]

Our private tracks a small number of kids before 7th, and also has a separate science teacher throughout elementary to make sure that someone with a science background is teaching the kids science before they get to middle school.[/quote]

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