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[quote=Anonymous]I have a "math" student who is now at MIT. He is a product of public school. Not a single private could accomidate him. He started calc BC AP in 9th grade. He was in AP Chem by 10th grade.

My younger son is in private. He hated math and absolutely loves the humanities. He will NEVER have a career in math so I'm not even remotely worried about it.

Even though I have a extremely successful, bright STEM child at MIT, I firmly belive the humanities are much more important. This is why my youngest is in private where he will stay. I did not force my oldest to switch because he truly loves math.  Scaling him back 3 or so years in math and science in order to have a great humanities education would have ruined his entire educational experience.

We are also very lucky to be zoned to an excellent public high school with a large south Asian population.  The parents in our public school have very high expectations for the sciences and apply a lot of pressure on the school.  There are not many public schools in the area I'd be very thrilled to have had to send my son to, so your situation is very specific to your child. Sweeping generalizations are just silly.[/quote]

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