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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To what degree are the Catholic K-8s that don’t offer it receptive to a child taking geometry in 8th grade through the Johns Hopkins program (with the parents ponying up the extra $2000)? [/quote]

You can do that. We looked into it for my child (now 20 & in college).
If you plan to go to a NOVA Catholic HS in the Diocese, you have to have the classes on your school transcript to take the exam that will exempt you from these classes in HS.

You can go rogue and try CTY (the Hopkins thing) and miss out on some of the fun/social things of middle school to do it. Confirmation prep starts in 7th and 8th grade.

For my family, K-8 was the last opportunity to have no-cut sports, scouts, etc., because in HS kids were more specialized and only those who excelled or were recruited/did travel made the teams in soccer, baseball, basketball, etc., so we waited until 10th grade to push more math. Summer school was much cheaper than CTY, and there were opportunities to take online college courses in those math classes needed to take calc as a senior.

I've seen some kids burn out/rebel/develop anxiety from this kind of pressure.
That being said, some kids are like academic Olympians and need challenges. If so, you may be frustrated at a school that uses class time to do service projects and pray and have discussions about moral issues.

There is also a lot of time in Catholic school spent on grammar and writing well. The AAP programs look at language more than technical writing. That's part of why we selected Catholic school for our student who was eligible for AAP (95th percentile kid) and the two who were not. [/quote]

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