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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are also in MoCo and our public elementary feeds into one of the best public high schools in the area, but we have decided to send our DD to private school (at least for the early elemetary years).  Top private/independent schools have low student to teacher ratios so kids get more attention (we feel this is very early for young children).  There are also more time and resources available for movement, PE, arts, music, language, science classes at the private schools, because private schools are less pressured to spend a lot of time preparing their studens (at least in the early years) for standardized exams.  Finally, top private/independent (such as Sidwell, Beauvoir, GDS, Maret) have very competive admissions process (they are very unlikely to admit kids with potential learning diabilities, behavioral problems, average to low IQ scores, or not ready for school due to lack of maturity of understanding of English language) so they end up admitting a very select group of very brigh and school ready kids.[/quote]

I was reading along and agreeing with this poster right up until he or she said "they are very unlikely to admit kids with potential learning diabilities, behavioral problems, average to low IQ scores, or not ready for school due to lack of maturity of understanding of English language." I don't think our family would be very comfortable in a private school where the implied lesson to the children is: you are more valuable because you are smarter, speak English better, never misbehave, and don't have learning "diabilities."[/quote]

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