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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public school is worth a try, but you might find that after a year of on-level/honors classes, if your child wants to go back to a private, he may be even farther behind.[/quote]

If OP’s kid is arguably behind from his years in private school, why would a year or two in public (which would have to be farther advanced for him to be behind coming from private) leave him further behind at private?

That doesn’t make sense.[/quote]

I don’t think OP’s kid is behind coming from private school.  Private school courses are more rigorous than on-level MCPS courses.  I know this from personal experience.  Spanish 1 at a private is going to cover more material and have much more homework than Spanish 1 in an MCPS high school.  There have been teachers on dcurbanmoms who have confirmed this.  A private school student could be well prepared to take AP Spanish by the 4th or 5th year.  In MCPS, this would be very unusual.  In private school, many 9th grade Algebra students are planning to go to 4 year universities.  They plan to complete a rigorous Pre-Calculus class in 12th grade.  In MCPS, many of the 9th grade Algebra students are going to take Math Applications in 12th grade instead of Pre-Calc.  Even those getting to Honors  PreCalc will be covering concepts that would be covered in Algebra2/Trig in private school.  The math sequence and the foreign language sequence progress more slowly in MCPS.  Of course, all of humanity are our peers, but OP’s son would have a stronger academic peer group and greater homework expectations in private school.[/quote]

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