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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a little concerned about our daughter's options for high school. She's been in AAP since 3rd grade, but opted to stay at our base school where she has a core group of friends and a sibling. She's in 5th grade now, so I'm thinking this through a bit early. We had always intended to just send her to Robinson for middle school and let her do honors math classes for 7th and 8th, so that she would not have to change schools between middle and high school.

I'm rethinking that now.

DD is crazy about math and science. She does well in all subjects, but she absolutely comes alive in math class (according to her teacher) and won't shut up about physics, at home or at school. She gets 4s in other subjects too, but she doesn't love ELA or social studies and she does not enjoy writing all that much.

I'm concerned that Robinson's IB focus is not a good fit for this kid. I think she would enjoy the AP math and science courses available at Lake Braddock so much more (and the ability to choose her classes based on her interests, rather than the rigid schedule required if she were to pursue the IB diploma). And I'm pretty sure she'll think the writing emphasis in the IB program is intentionally designed to torture her.

So we are considering sending her to Lake Braddock for middle school AAP, and then applying for pupil placement to keep her there in high school (I've looked and Lake Braddock is the closest AP school to our home). The issue is that we'll have to kind of start leaning on her to make that switch, because she already does a few activities at Robinson (orchestra, some art stuff). And she has always assumed she'll go there with her little group of AAP besties that she's been with for years. She might be pretty resistant to the idea of changing that, so I want to be sure I have a good understanding of the options before I start talking to her about it.

Any parents at Robinson that can allay my concerns about lack of STEM options for an advanced kid? Any parents who opted to do the Lake Braddock pupil placement route who could offer insight from your experience?[/quote]

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