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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean at Blair...[/quote]

DC is in college and I’m not going to harass DC and waste my own time with a question from an internet bully and stalker. From memory, though, I’m not sure they had a textbook. If they did, I have no clue what it was.

You got me: I can’t time travel back to when DC was in high school. Congrats. Tell yourself you won.

For the rest of you, who have been trying to follow this thread through the massive derailment involving weird personal attacks on me, 
- I stand by my comparison of the Blair magnet statistics class against my highly regarded graduate school course (which I hope the post above makes clear), and
- Magnet parents have told you in this thread that magnet classes are indeed comparable to college classes, and also that their kids ran out of classes at their colleges.

Every one of you can choose to believe these things, or not believe them and make personal attacks on the parents. It’s your choice. Let me suggest, however, that ignoring actual information from actual parents would be your loss.[/quote]

??? I've never bullied you here. I'm the poster above who said from experience that covering regression doesn't necessarily imply an accelerated course. I then asked specifics on the Blair course (since you have direct experience with a child who took it) to try to figure it out.

I'm not out to get you or anything. It would help to see if the Blair Applied Stats class is an "advanced" AP stats, or if it is modeled after a Stats with Programming course which is the usual course math majors who took AP stats would take in college. [/quote]

I can’t answer specific questions about Blair magnet curriculum, although magnet classes generally tie into each other and I know that in at least one instance DC had problems with a project that the magnet kids were simultaneously doing in another magnet class. I can confirm, however, that the level of work was not the watered-down, baby stats that some here are claiming, but rather it was at a level comparable to or faster than my first grad school stats class. FWIW, Blair magnet kids can take the related AP tests in the various subjects but they don’t always. My kid didn’t take the AP Stats test because this would have required additional home study of stuff that wasn’t covered in the class, and my kid was a senior and had been accepted ED at a university that doesn’t give credit for AP.

The simple point of my original post was that the magnet covered regression after 4 weeks, faster than my grad school class. That’s all I was trying to say. I was pushing back on the hostile posters claiming that magnet stats is just a watered-down or baby stats class. From my deep familiarity with stats thanks to my current job, and from my own experience studying stats at a top-ranked graduate school, I don’t believe the magnet is doing baby stats. [/quote]

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