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[quote=Anonymous]We moved DC to private school for part of elementary school. This, as you will have guessed by now, is how DC comes to have so many friends in top DC privates....

I can't help with the question about whether a public elementary school prepares a kid for a challenging public high school, because we didn't go that route. I think middle and high school are a shock for many kids because are more challenging and require much more organization than elementary school did.  I'm not sure this is different whether you go from private elementary to private middle school - it's still a bit of a shock for kids.

In retrospect I'm not sure the move to private school for the 2nd half of elementary was necessary. The private school offered lots of one-on-one help, and social studies and science which were virtually non-existent in DC's MCPS elementary. But DC has caught up on social studies and science in public middle and high schools.

At the high school level, our experience (with limited comparisons to private high schools) is that the magnets are more challenging than private schools, but not necessarily the route to take if your kid wants straight As and a shot at the Ivies. [/quote]

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