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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what you do if you want to stay in DC public is deliberately accelerate your child yourself over the years. Hire a tutor, have them work out of Singapore Math and Saxon math workbooks, put the kid on Khan Academy videos, send them to Johns Hopkins CTY camps etc.  Document their progress and bring the evidence to the school's math coordinator a couple times a year.

If teachers get fed up with the kid burning through math assignments fast and causing mischief while s/he waits for others to catch up, believe me, the school starts to deliver the math challenge, at least as long as the school is mostly high SES kids.  The kid may be sent to the library to work on math software.  Don't give up or give in and the differentiation starts to kick in as long as the kid really can work far ahead of grade level.  That's been our experience.[/quote]

Thanks for this. It helps to hear that documentation is important with getting help. And I absolutely won't give up (my kid doesn't suffer quietly, so I think I have no choice but push forward).  Our school is not high SES (it is Title I). From a lot of the answers I am seeing, it appears that (with the exception of Seaton), all the schools mentioned that differentiate for math are high SES. This is a HUGE equity problem, because I can guarantee you high ability math students at our school are being missed and/or ignored because they are meeting grade levels stats and their parents aren't asking the school about providing more. There just isn't the parental push for programming, at least not historically.

My kid is absolutely burning through Singapore workbooks (I don't know about Saxon - will pick that one up next). I've gotta get back on the Khan, although we went away from it due to the 5 hours a day on synchronous instruction (doesn't leave much time for extra work or screen time). We don't really have the budget for a tutor - I got a quote that was like $75/hours (?!). I will try to find more, but I take it this might be the going rate (correct me if I am wrong).

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Have you looked into AOPS?  It might really be the thing.  Then when school starts up again, maybe see about adding a math enrichment after-school class.  If you otherwise like your school, I don't think I'd leave it just because you think another school might have a better math curriculum or approach.  You're far too likely to be disappointed in the reality.  Instead, just be proactive about it.  [/quote]

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