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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is in the accelerated math in a public school in Bethesda. The accelerated track is Algebra in 7th. My child’s friend who attends Holton commented last year that she was embarrassed when she saw my child’s math book because it was clear the public school math was a year ahead. [/quote]

So the on-level track is Algebra in 8th?[/quote]

In FCPS I believe there's a slight majority either in 8th or before, but it's not officially the on-level track. Depending on your middle school it might seem like it is: higher SES schools will have a large majority on that track, lower SES schools will not.[/quote]
Interesting. The on-level track at most privates is Algebra in 8th - with as much as 1/3 to 1/2 taking geometry.

It seems like maybe public allows for much greater acceleration (Precalc in 9th or even 8th, for example, which the majority of privates - tho not all - cannot accommodate), but for those students who are not super-accelerated, the private schools actually have a base level of about a year ahead of publics for a large portion of the main population of students. [/quote]

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