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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here:  Thanks for the input.  I would love to hear other's views.  We would attend Lucy Barnsley, which is not convenient.  I have mixed feelings about the current school.  Some of the teachers are great, some have really missed on my DC.   When DC has not done well, I want the current school to be more about why DC is not doing well, rather than a focus on my DC as the problem.   We have spoken to our current teacher about the application and the teacher's view of HGC.  This teacher is a great teacher, but my real draw to HGC is that I don't want to worry about whether DC get's a good draw on a teacher.  I did find it hard to explain on the application why HGC would be useful to my DC given all the other bright kids and given the accelerated track in the local school.  At any rate, I am trying to dig up every piece of information I can. Thanks.[/quote]

Not the OP, but we are also the family of a 3rd grader considering the application and we would go to Barnsley. We are interested in hearing about the Barnsley program specifically.  I have learned so far that not all MCPS ES are the same in the way they implement or don't implement MCPS programs (specifically how they handle ability grouping, differentiation, implement programs like Jr. great books or william and mary, etc). Likewise, I'm assuming not all HGCs are the same.  We've had a mixed bag at the home school.  While there are probably a handful of peers, the school refuses to put them all together in the same classroom to form a peer group.  On the other hand, Barnsley would be very inconvienent for us too (the home school is walking distance from our house), and none of the Middle school options look very attractive, so if our child got in, after 2 years at a HGC, we may just choose to go back to the home Middle School.  So, Barnsley is not a perfect choice, but I'd love to hear more about that program specifically.[/quote]

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