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You cannot judge all public schools as having the same curriculum. My daughter's grade 1 class did research reports. They had to do 2 drafts based on an outline, conference on the second draft and edit and then write a final report. I was shocked at the level of expected competency. Yet, in the same DOE, another parent told me her grade 1 child was tracing letters.

In addition, my daughter's public school starts chess and spanish in K.

Depends on the principal and the parental input. We have a strong PTA.

Ren

I have a question regarding Stanford testing. Our son completed 3rd grade and we just reveiwed his results from the test this spring. For many of the categories his grade equivalent was 10 or higher. (For math it was 12+). Can someone explain what a grade equivalent means? I've looked online and the answers I have received didn't make sense to me. Many thanks.

Essentially, he did as well as the average 10th grader (50th percentile type of kid) would have done on that same 3rd grade test.

They are very good scores, but should not be read as indicating that he is functioning at a 10th grade level. To know that, he'd need to take the 10th grade level of the test and come out on par with an average 10th grader on a 10th grade test (and I'd, personally, not rely on one test but wait for a couple tests to show similar results).