Sorry to engage on a BS thread that I don’t know about but… My son went to a selective enrollment high school, public, in Chicago. You need a 99.7% or above to even be considered. So it might be similar to BS…
This again was the states top school. I mention this because each school taught differently. I think they used the UChicago math curriculum. This is very heavy writing for math. You have to actually write out and explain in detail your answers. They focused on doing problems more intensely for understanding and not just doing more problems of the same type. We thought this would do him in but he actually flourished. Sure more technical writing but it’s almost exactly what he did on college. They also forced this math kids to explain the problems verbally…
Something like this might be good and seeing how each school teaches math might be important
At the number 2 school (now number 1… Lol) he didn’t like the way they taught math. He recognized this right away at the open house.
Also only on CC is getting a B a bad grade. But I get it, for these selective schools in Chicago you need all “A” ‘s even to be looked at. When my son was getting B’ s in English, writing etc we discovered he had a reading comp issue that led to writing being delayed a bit. We knew something wasn’t right. Not trying to make him perfect just trying to get him to his potential, if that makes sense.
My daughter on the hand went to a private performing arts high school in Chicago for musical theater. Graduating college this year and finishing her senior thesis at her Lac. 50 page paper is a joy to her. That would do my son in. Lol. Right brain VS left brain
Know thy child ?
Good luck.