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[quote=Anonymous]Depends on what you mean by "everything"?

Public schools have proscribed standards that must be covered and tested. There is pressure to cover "everything" in the SOL, and sometimes they manage and sometimes they don't.

Private schools do not have this "everything" concept. They plan and cover what they feel is important and necessary to move to the next level and build in flexibility to pivot to something else as needs or interests arise. It is therefore impossible to fail to cover "everything'" because "everything" is whatever they actually covered. Even a course syllabus is intended to be a general and flexible outline of what might be covered -- not a mandate (e.g. the syllabus may suggest a unit on ancient monetary systems, but the teacher may decide to capitalize on the classes interest in current event and switch to the ethics of war or human migration in the modern era).

Sometimes this is 'more' than a parallel public school class, sometime is is 'less' depending on what you are measuring. I don't think there is a meaningful way to measure who is ahead or behind in either case - of what?
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