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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid will be compared to others at his school regarding course options/rigor and grades/GPA.

I hope your distaste for public is kept to yourself. You have a superiority complex while also being incredibly defensive (MY kid only doesn’t have an 8.0 because of his hard school and all kids at public have skated by).[/quote]
I don't think OP is being defensive - it's factual. I have a kid at a rigorous private and another at a public HS and the difference is stark. One is objectively smarter, has a ton more homework and the other has a  a better GPA because of redo's and other lax policies. Maybe you have an inferiority complex?[/quote]

You can't even compare kids in different classes from the same school! Some get the easier grader, some get a teacher who gives partial credit, some get a teacher who asks lots of questions on an exam (versus 8 questions), some have a teacher which offers lots of extra ways to earn points (quizzes, classwork, participation, etc.), some have a teacher who has comprehensive reviews before each exam and the tests mirror the review, some have multiple exams a grading term (versus 1), some have better teacher (and some have horrible ones), some have ones which expect the kid's knowledge to be well beyond the curriculum and the teacher only teaches the curriculum, some have a teacher who is absent a lot, some have a teacher who is difficult to understand or a poor teacher, some had a poor teacher the prior year and now are struggling with the foundational material, some allow retakes to be done at home (and others have 3 question retakes with extensive subparts and no partial credit).

You're delusional if you think the experience of a handful of kids gives you a universal truth. [/quote]

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