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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest issue is that every parent at Whitman believes their child is gifted so honors math ends up being average math.[/quote]

... and it's "bad teaching" if their child has any problem grasping math concepts! [/quote]

That was our experience when our kids were at Whitman. We ended up going private. The honors classes were poorly taught and very watered down since every class was an honors class.[/quote]

We had the opposite experience - DC came to Whitman from a private school and the math classes were much better and the students farther ahead in math at Whitman. In fact that's why DC was in honors geo in 9th grade when most of the other kids had taken it in 8th grade.[/quote]

We found honors to be pretty lame. Since everyone was in it, the pace was kind of slow. We ended up pulling our kids and going private. [/quote]

I agree that honors geo was lame because it was basically the kids on the slow math track. But there was also a regular geo so not everyone was in honors geo. Once DC got to honors Alg2 and honors pre calc it was fine because it was fast track kids, albeit mostly those a grade younger. DC considered trying to do a summer class to catch up with the fast track kids in DCs grade but decided that getting to AP Calc by 12th grade was good enough, and from a college admissions perspective it was indeed fine. [/quote]

There was a regular geo track but all it took was a parent to compalin that their gifted child should be and honors and presto they're in honors. This was a meaningless distinction.[/quote]

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