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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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).

[b]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?[/b]
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We used to have AP test scores to measure whether or not a class covered what the college board thinks is necessary. Public schools still have them  [/quote]

Kids still take them. But also, that is a tiny subset of courses not intended to be a standard high school curriculum. It was intended to be college level work to give  a small group of students extra challenge and get them out of intro level course work in college -- which is why there is a standard and why a subset of colleges don't give credit anyway (most still do though). Unfortunately, in some places these courses have become a standard high school curriculum, and that was never intended. My own kid took 11, so I'm not against AP, but it certainly was never meant to be a means of comparing high schools or students to each other. [/quote]

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