My son's private school used Saxon for math. He hated it, and so did I. It was very repetitive and boring. My son is gifted in math, and it was way tooooo slow for him.
We put him in public school because we hated the Saxon math so much. The public school uses Harcourt-Brace. It's much faster pace, and it has challenge sections for kids that master the lesson. My son always got the challenge sections.
My grandchildren go to public school (in a rural area - good school) that uses Saxon. I sub some, and know many of the kids. Saxon is boring and repetitive - no prolbem solving, nothing to 'get their attention'. I also see kids who do not know their basic skills - multiplication tables at 4th, or, the other day, at 7th. I know the teachers as well. I don't blame them (except that they adopted Saxon in the first place.)
Grades 6-8 don't use Saxon. Harcourt is used for 6 & 7, Prentice for Algebra, maybe Pre-algebra. Harcourt isn't hard enough, to me, for 6-7. I have taught out of older Harcourt books. There is not enough new stuff for these grades. I helped one of the kids work on homework - fractions - and the understanding was not there - after 5 years of Saxon.
Prentice is not too bad, but I prefer Glencoe/McGraw-Hill for newer books. I used Dolcianni (Houghton Mifflin) for years in Algebra.
**We put him in public school because we hated the Saxon math so much.**
You stopped homeschooling your son because you hated the math program?