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Geometry is already in the Common Core. The article is complaining about how getting ahead can result in child boredom in class. The "synthetic" approach to Geometry is also something that undergrad largely abandons.

Part of the problem of the bureaucracy of current schooling is that your child has to either be way ahead or way behind for people to consider an out-of-band adjustment.

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The very best schools can get kids into upper level or even college classes.

One reason some families are willing to pay $35000/year to send their kids to the high end private schools, either boarding schools or elite day schools, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_School.

Public schools can also grant children credits for classes taken in a local college.

And in CA, they are generally required to do so (though sometimes have to be sued to comply — see PAUSD's recent experience: https://padailypost.com/2023/03/25/lawsuit-sparks-debate-ove...).

Definitely do not need to pay thousands of dollars to get advanced instruction on math.

Many public schools allow students to partially enroll in a community college and take classes there. At the very least, if you take a modest amount of initiative, you can negotiate a way to allow for a mild deviation form the standard curriculum.

My daughter is a student in one of those elite schools. You are allowed to take one of those advanced classes in any year (i.e. Calculus as a freshman) but that doesn't mean that the school will teach it to you. If you take the class you either need to be a genius or use outside tutoring.

I don’t think you necessarily need to be in an “elite” school. My high school allowed us to take classes at the local university.

> One reason some families are willing to pay $35000/year to send their kids to the high end private schools

Sadly that's the low end of private high schools. Many are over 50K and most are over 40K in silicon valley.

That's a ten year old number.

Not surprised it's way higher now.

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