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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a student who is gifted in math and science, the publics offer accelerated classes that the private schools do not.  They have large enough cohorts to offer classes beyond APs, like multivariable calc or science electives taught by NIH retirees.

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We’ve been over this already. We showed you the course catalogs from top private schools and proved that this is wrong. Do we need to rehash this?[/quote]

Apparently, we do.  The privates are not even close in math and science options, or in providing an advanced math cohort.  [/quote]

Look at the 8-9 course catalogs I posted. [/quote]
that doesn't show the number of cohorts in the class.  I stated above, my kid's HS needs two MVC classes.[/quote]

Your kid’s HS is probably 4 times larger than most private schools, so the percentage of the class in MVC is likely comparable to private, if not lower.

Simple math, my friend. [/quote]

Actually, it’s even worse.

Whitman has roughly 2,000 kids.

With about 60 kids per grade at many private schools, that’s roughly 250 kids.

So if there’s one MVC section of, say, 15 kids in that private school, that’s 25% of the senior class, assuming they’re all seniors.

However, with a senior class at an MCPS school of maybe 500 kids, two sections of maybe 20 kids each is only 8% of the class.[/quote]

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