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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you can probably keep your daughter in the same school and cut down on her workload.

I've had two kids in two different DCC MCPS high schools. They take the hardest classes available to them and still only have half an hour to an hour of homework a night. Their unweighted GPAs are/were both in the 3.8 range and weighted around 4.6.

Does your kid do a lot of activities? Mine do not. They get plenty of sleep.[/quote]

OP said her DC is at a W school in MoCo - so highest rigor will be a boatload of AP classes.  This comes with a lot of work.  OPs student would need to cut back on the number of AP courses in order to achieve a lighter homework load at her current school.[/quote]

Maybe, but my kids take/took almost all AP or IB. One is in a STEM magnet, taking multivariable calculus this year, and has also taken two AP English classes and five AP social science classes in addition to his many AP STEM classes. I guess it's possible the same classes are harder at the W school than at the DCC school, but it's the same school system.

I suspect the issue is a) OP's kid is probably aiming for a 4.00 UW and b) OP's kid probably spends a lot of time doing sports or other activities.

It's also possible her kid wastes a lot of time while doing homework because she's doing other things online.

I went to a top private and it was waaaaaaaaay more work than my kids have ever had, even the one in the highly regarded STEM Magnet who also takes AP English/Social Science classes.

But if you can afford private, I'd go for it so your kid can learn how to write. The lack of writing instruction/feedback at MCPS is horrific. But don't switch to private because you think it will be less work.[/quote]

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