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[quote=Anonymous]It’s a lack of leadership at the heads of these places. Because people are so in to the social aspect of them, they are willing to put up with what no one else in any other part of the country would.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math, like music or a language, is best taught as quickly as possible as fast as possible. True quants think the math at most of these private schools is absolute bullshit and enroll their kids in Russian math. I thought it was achievement culture that they did this, but it’s truly not. They want their kids taught math in a way that works and encourage individual skills. These private schools don’t do differential learning until way too late to cultivate longterm talent.
 There is so much educational research from other counties and other states on how the way we now teach math doesn’t lead to longterm success. Singapore has great math scores, but the Singapore math they teach in these schools is sold by one corporation. Its research backs its curriculum but it’s like edtech — it’s not vetted by an outside agency. Speyer and it sounds like Horace Mann are the only two I know that seem to know how to teach math to accelerated learners. All people at these schools use to judge the quality of their kid’s education is exmissions to HYP.[/quote]

Or maybe they and their kids don't care much about math.  Can you believe that different people have different interests?  Nuts, right?[/quote]

OP here, yes I do think it's absolutely nuts how these schools approach math. It's a pretty critical skill to learn and I'd argue the logic and discipline involved in math translates directly to being good at writing, debate and other areas within the humanities. [/quote][/quote]

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