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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids in NYC who enter SHSAT schools (Stuy, Bronx Science, etc.) from public schools end up doing calc as a senior. And these are the best and brightest.

The take calc early phenomenon is dumb. It is not proving anything.[/quote]

Stuy is THE best STEM magnet school in the country, yet fcps moms say they are very behind.[/quote]

Exactly. That is why I mentioned this. I live in NYC and have friends with kids at allegedly top suburban schools in VA, NC and MD who are obsessed with pushing their kids ahead and think it shows that their kids are so brilliant and their schools are so great. It really doesn't. But they are in their little bubble.

I have also heard that [b]these kids who place into super advanced math sometimes end up struggling if they end up at top colleges because they aren't as prepared as they think they are[/b].[/quote]

I’ve heard quite a few cases where public school students failed miserably in college calculus class.  The AP classes or whatever more advanced math courses offered in these public schools are not well taught.  The foundation is just not there.[/quote]

We did private school summer prep math classes at a local school.  Some of the teaching was much worse than in public.  It’s hit or miss regardless of the school on teacher quality and fit.  [/quote]

This.  Publics do better with math and science, and privates almost always do better with English and social sciences. [/quote]

And the reason for this is that English and humanities is far more expensive to teach than math and science, since humanities work is more open ended. But it's free to throw a kid in a higher level math class. [/quote]

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