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[quote=Anonymous]I really don't understand the incessant criticism of the Alexandria City public system.

We enrolled our child at two very well-known, and I think highly-regarded, private schools.  We experienced invasive parents, truly weak academics, and Lord Of The Flies behavior even among the younger kids.  We found private school heads to be behaviorally similar to legal recruiters.

We yanked our daughter out, in disgust, and sent her to an ACPS school (Charles Barrett) starting in third grade.  It has been more wonderful than I imagined any school could be, especially once her very patient third grade teacher got her up to speed in math after very weak prior instruction.  We know several private-school refugees in the ACPS system.  We've toured GW, we know many GW parents and kids, and we've been to TC repeatedly.  We know many recent grads, all of who have done genuinely well.  The ACPS that has been described in these messages is completely unknown to us.

We've heard only a few real ACPS horror stories, and they were molehills compared to what we've directly observed at private schools.  And the vast majority of the area private schools basically do not accommodate more academically advanced students.

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