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Is your child at Va Run now, or in private? We are house-hunting in the area and have seen some houses zoned to VR/BR. Would love some more info on the school. [/quote]

She's in private now.  She was at Virginia Run for about 4 months, in first grade.  We switched to private because she was unhappy.  Here is my impression of it, based on our short stint there.  The school is fine.  The facilities are nice, and they do have some amount of forward thinking, IMO.  The staff is good.  The PTA is VERY involved, and does a lot of good work - they raised enough funds to pay for a full time science teacher (who is good, and I liked the open ended projects she gave the kids, to allow them to think outside the box, to get to their solutions).  Per the principal, if she needs funds, she lets the PTA know, and they will get her the money she needs.  They have a part time AART; again, very nice, but I don't know how she has the bandwidth to do all that is expected of her.

The school is not a LLIV, and as far as I know, there is not a lot of differentiation in the lower grades.  DD left K (in a private school) doing multiplication and starting division, and she was stuck doing 'What is this number?  Draw apples to show the number', along with everyone else.  Her teacher was really very nice, and very responsive, and we had multiple sessions where I brought up my concerns with her, about keeping her challenged, but nothing was really done.  She was in the highest reading group, but that was well below where she actually was reading, at the time.

On these forums, it seems like there are schools where the principal and AART know the children really well.  I did not get that impression from Virginia Run.  I don't see how a part-time AART can get to know 700 students, and the principal once stated that the kids only get to see her when they're in really big trouble.[/quote]

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