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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you bring up a valid point though you'd be hard pressed to find people to open up and admit it.

Private schools, especially those like Flint Hill that seem to accommodate children with minor learning issues, are not merely for those who scored in the top 5% of testing. Privates are often times used by those parents who believe they will provide extra attention, extra nurturing, or extra sensitivity to their child's needs. For example I know of a parent who put her child at a private simply to accommodate his extreme sensitivity to loud noises. Public schools would never have done that. I know of many parents who brought their children to privates because their children had dyslexia or add or some kind of LD.

Potomac isn't generally known to accommodate children with these or any kind of learning issues, however. But I was told by one Ivy league graduate who went to Potomac that one third of her grad class went to Univ of Va. [b]Univ of Va is a good school but not in the league of Duke, Yale, Georgetown, etc.. and it's reasonable to expect the kids from Potomac would have fared better.[/b]

I spoke to a few parents at another private, however, who said they'd be thrilled if their child went to Univ of Va though. So it all depends on the private.[/quote]

Not to hijack the thread, but you can't possibly be serious that Duke and Georgetown are better than UVA?  That is an uninformed comment.[/quote]

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