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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who was it that very accurately said, “show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.”  In our public, they said the choices made in 9th grade usually set the stage for all of high school.

Privates generally can’t come close to the AP and upper level math and science classes (multi variable calc, microbiology).  This area is very rich in STEM experts and a lot of them are teaching as second careers in public schools.

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We had friends in town last week looking at east coast colleges for their junior who is at a boarding school in California. My Wilson DC was telling her what classes they have/had. She said, “wow!” after several electives/APs and remarked how lucky DC was to have interesting classes. She was ready for senior year because she would finally have two interesting classes.[/quote]
I don't know about boarding school in CA, but I do know that a lot of HS in CA lack interesting classes because 1. budget  2. the "good" school districts are too small to offer a variety, similar to private schools.

Just looking at the HS we were zoned for in a very expensive Bay Area neighborhood, the highest math class offered is AP AB/BC Calc.   My Jr here in MCPS is taking AP BC Calc now, as are many many other students here, and doing well.

CS -- they have only two offerings, one AP and one intro.  These are just two examples of the lack of course offerings in a lot of other school districts.

As much as I complain about MCPS (and I have, a lot), the course offerings and programming here are so much better than most of the districts in the country, including expensive CA areas.

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