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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I moved so my kids could attend Bethesda-area schools, but the recipe is the same everywhere, OP. You enrich at home, and you ensure that your kids are in the most advanced track they can sustain for their IQ, organizational skills and processing speed. This will look different for every kid, but the point is to seek an appropriate level of challenge, to learn for its own sake, and for college admissions positioning.

For one of my kids, this meant following the regular advanced track to AP level. For the other one, who is gifted, it meant starting Algebra 1 in 6th grade upon special request and sleeping or reading classics through all the grades until she met some challenge in AP Calc BC and AP Physics C.

Do not hesitate hiring individual tutors for your kids, as soon as they seem unsure or their grades drop to a B, especially in math, where each year builds on the other (chemistry and physics depend on a good math understanding as well). And insist on getting your kid to read as much as they can, good quality literature, because MCPS' Achilles' heel is the English curriculum. Unless they get do well in AP Lang and AP Lit, they will not be ready for the rigors of college writing.[/quote]

you sound nuts!  My kid went to an average school and did well.  Take APs and your kid will be fine.  if they need that much tutoring, then maybe they shouldn't expect to go to high academic college.[/quote]

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