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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In depth math?

The lack of in depth math is why we left our private school. We had to tutor our kids over the summer to get them up to the level of the high performing public school kids in our district.[/quote]

What grade did you move to? 
We also are moving far and anticipate a big shock with math behindness as well as open grading and ranking. 
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Kids moved to public school for 6th grade MS. The public school had 3 levels of math while the old private school was teaching to the lowest level with no differentiation, no math teams, no gifted program, and with me teaching my kids the basics like multiplication and long division. They did pretty math art though. The volume of kids at MS meant there were classrooms of kids operating at a higher level, not just 2 or 3 talented math students. My kids ended up doing geometry in public 8th grade, AP Calc BC in 11th, and multivariable/linear dual enrollment in 12th, which wasn't the fastest track. They would have been on a slower track if we hadn't tutored them at home.[/quote]

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