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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go visit both and see what you think will work for your child.  We are zoned for another ES in the Whitman cluster and decided it wasn't a good fit for one of our children so went the private school route.  But now we are back in public for high school and are very pleased with it. 
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Since you've been to both, I think you should have a good idea. Which one is more rigorous in academics? Public or private?
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There is a huge range in private schools and a huge range within a grade at a public school.  So it's not a bright line answer.  I think the public schools are very rigorous.  In fact the reason many people want private schools at the elementary level is to have a more flexibility in the curriculum and more time for art, music and PE.  At the high school level I think only 1 or 2 private high schools are as good as Whitman for smart high achieving kids. [/quote]
For high achieving kids the Blair magnet program is better than any private high school, and cheaper too.  Then again, there is a certain antipathy towards sending kids to Silver Spring. As for BT--they don't lebel your kids as gifted, have very, very involved parents and a certain bigwig has a child there (I think).  [/quote]

I think people are happy to send their kids to the Blair magnet or RM IB but the number who get in is tiny compared to the high school population so most people don't really focus on that as a realistic option.  I mention Whitman because that's the HS the Burning Tree feeds to (and which my kid happens to go to).  The nice thing about it is that it is also good for high achieving kids (as are many other MCPS high schools) in part because not all the top kids have been siphoned off to magnet schools.[/quote]

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