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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would think really hard about choosing TR over LT. As in, I would not do it in a million years. Lots of kids start LT in K and especially given PK3 didn’t really happen for this grade (2 hours virtual for 2/3rds of the year and then some kids got in for in person but with very strict protocols for 1/3rd of the year), I think the “harm” in starting “late” is even less than usual. Starting after K gets harder, but even then it’s not a disaster.

I have experience with both schools and our experience with TR for our oldest was sufficiently bad that we moved IB for LT so all of our kids could go there. We also had multiple transfers from TR last year, though I have heard the pandemic was unusually bad.

I would tour LT on Thursday morning if you haven’t yet. Going to a school because you know two families there is… not what I would do and I suspect you will regret it. Also, when at least one of those families leaves by 2nd because the school can’t accommodate above grade level kids at all and doesn’t try to, you will really regret it.[/quote]

I agree that the above is something to consider, though we are upper elementary at TR4 and are more than happy to stay through 5th because it works for us.  But our situation is perhaps “unique” because we have no expectation or desire for the school to accommodate our above grade level kids, mainly because we don’t think any DC public school really could (or should). Ours kids are both JHU/CTYers and take advantage of lots of those opportunities. They are both many years above grade level in math and ELA of course and beyond want any reasonable differentiation could meet. BUT…they love TR4 and are absolutely learning a lot by being there, clearly stimulated to my satisfaction.  They get their hardcore intellectual challenges elsewhere and it works for us.

And we’ll be going private for middle anyway.

But LT probably is the safer choice for most folks. [/quote]

I think this gets at something. If you are the sort of family that has the resources, bandwidth, and inclination to greatly accelerated your kids outside of school, then TR vs LT vs whatever on the Hill probably isn't a big deal because [i]no[/i] DC public schools provides anything akin to a gifted program, which means that you're at mercy of how much the school is willing to put into differentiation, and how effectively. It certainly helps to have an "advanced" cohort, but even then we're not talking about kids that are universally in the 98+ percentile, for the most part. And now with things like Russian Math, AOPS, and the like, the trend is moving towards out-of-school programming to [i]truly [/i]accelerate kids versus relying on [i]any[/i] public school to do the heavy lifting in that regard. If you're relying on the school, you're not keeping up, sadly. [/quote]

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