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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty much none of the area private schools offer 8th grade advanced algebra.  If your kid is a perfect fit for Basis or has rights to Deal and is strong at math, great do advanced algebra.  But labeling that a non-negotiable for  a good enough middle school for academically minded families seems like cherry-picking an arbitrary data point or moving the goalposts.[/quote]

Two big differences. First, academic tracking is how you get the peer group in academically heterogenous public schools. Expensive DC private schools already have it via their admissions policies.

Second, the private schools are already so ahead in terms of college admissions, and less in need of merit aid, that students are less in need of distinguishing themselves via advanced math. Like, do my kids need to be doing precalculus by 10th grade? Of course not in any intrinsic sense, but if they're capable of it, I'm going to encourage it more than if I could just write a check for college. [/quote]

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