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[quote=Anonymous]"Latin tests for math when a student enters the school and offers Algebra in 7th grade. Kids are offered electives. The kids who need extra help are given it during electives, other kids do enrichment activities. Latin also has summer school for kids who need extra help. Perfect, no, but my child is working about two years above where I worked at the same age (I base this on the books he is assigned and the amount of writing required, as well as math). My child has the grades to apply to SWW, but we will probably stay for HS (we went to ivies and are optimistic that our child will as well if that is what he wants). Every HS parent I have met thinks highly of the college counselor."

Sounds like your kids just finished 7th grade.  There's a reason most high-SES families leave Latin before HS, and it's not because the school is bent on propelling kids to top universities (but then, for the most part, neither are Wilson or SWW).  The college counselor knows her stuff on the liberal arts colleges applications scene, but you might want to talk to her now, ask her what she knows about Ivy admissions, Stanford, Georgetown, honors state school programs etc.  She's not into any of that.  I also attended Ivies but left after 8th for a private, feeling torn but quietly concerned about the number of weak students entering HS.  Yes, my DC was doing more challenging work than I did in MS, but that wouldn't necessarily enable him to keep up with peers at selective admissions high schools (private and public) not when every DC charter's focus is seeing low-SES kids off to college.  I'm watching DCI's development for my younger child but expect to have the same concerns.

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