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[quote=Anonymous]We are moving to Arlington from a small northeast school which enjoyed small schools and small class sizes, and I know my DD performs well with encouragement and clear expectations; she has not yet developed a self-starter mentality where she would seek out her own work -- she would just do the assigned work well, and then spend her free time reading or watching TV.  She is not an athlete, so she has a lot of downtime, and I want an environment where the school will really engage her and give her sufficient homework and challenge to keep her engaged rather than busy work she whips through and then left to her own devices.

Our realtor has an 8th grader too, and told us that they read 3 novels in their english class this year and wrote summaries on them, which seemed a little light to me at her DD's middle school (Ham? I think she goes to?).  She said there is only differentiation in middle school math and language, and no seperate computer science requirement nor differentiated English or History classes, and that classes in middle school can get up to 30 kids with 800 kids in the school (our current school has about 22 per class, and the school it self is 300 students because of the town based enrollment).

High school seems kind of giant sized, like 3000 at the Washington High School? Our realtor said they had IB and would have good differnetiation and plenty of engagement and challenge for our DD, but it would not be much individual engagement because of large class size and the size of the school?   How do they build executive function within students, and is there plenty of engagement and enrichment available for a capable student who may tend to need a nudge?  Or do they really expect the students to take the iniativie and build their own objectives starting freshman year and executive function is up to the parents?  Would Yorktown be any different?[/quote]

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