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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Latin sounds great but several posters report it is not as challenging.  What does this mean exactly?  [/quote]

Mostly it means that students are grouped heterogeneously, so some advanced students will be in English or Latin classes, for example, with some weaker students.  Also, in math, there's no seventh-grade algebra option.  Or rather, there is, but they then are forced to do algebra over two years, "1A" in seventh and "1B" in eighth.  This latter concept strikes many (me included) as bizarre since surely many students could do a full year of algebra in seventh grade.  You can still get to highly advanced math in HS (BC Calc), but people do that by doubling up on math (geometry and Algebra 2) in ninth grade, which again, seems strange because seventh-grade algebra would eliminate the need to do that.

We have found it to be plenty challenging for our advanced student with the exception of math, but it's true that if academic difficulty is your main goal, that Basis would probably be better (from what I've heard, since I have no first-hand experience with Basis).

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