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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid entered 9th grade at a Big3 this fall from public as a super accelerated math kid--took algebra in 6th.  We quickly found that despite having all As in math (Algebra 1, geometry, Algebra 2), she didn't really know much math. 
The Big3 math was so much deeper and more difficult than what she was used to in public. After a month we dropped her down a level (from honors precalc to honors algebra 2) and she is doing really well (second year of algebra 2)

Now, some of this may be pandemic related and your mileage may vary but in *our* experience, the public school "acceleration" was a mile wide and a foot deep.   [/quote]

BS my kids are extremely math oriented we did Big 3 and public there is zero comparison Public wins hands down full stop.

Parent of MIT and Stanford  [/quote]

I'm the person you're responding to and my kid's experience has 100% been that private is been harder. Like I said, your mileage may vary.  I'm simply sharing my kid's experience.  if you thought critically about this for a minute (oh Stanford/MIT grad) you would come to the conclusion that it's possible that not everyone has the exact same experience. I'm simply sharing ours. We're finding the private school math to go far deeper in content.  [/quote]

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