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[quote=Anonymous]The best and the brightest are in MCPS, not private.  I say this with one who graduated from MCPS and one who graduated from Bullis.

Bullis excels at small class sizes and personal attention.  Max class size was 15 for our child, whereas our public school kids had some in excess of 35 kids in a classroom.  If your child likes sports or arts (musical instrument, theater or dance), they will do fine.  Bullis is not a pressure cooker - we had to sign a paper for our child to take 3 or maybe 4 APs one year (they usually allow 1), where as our public school kid took 4-5 each year and had friends who took a full course load of APs.

Also - you want your child in the higher level courses. When our child made the transition to Bullis, they were originally placed in a lower level math course with those 2 grades above where our child was. Based on the expectations of that teacher, and, the attitude of classmates, our child switched to higher level course -  otherwise they would have spent the year unhappy due to the lack of interest from the students and lack of rigor of the course. Bumping up, they did fine (and we're still 2 grades levels ahead of others in their grade)[/quote]

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