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[quote=Anonymous]Back to the original question - why did you choose private when in MoCo?

We didn't choose it to start with. We know many public school students from both DC (Wilson) and MoCo who went to amazing schools and are just great young people.

Slowly, we became aware of more and more people from MoCo who move one or more children to private school.

Eventually, my husband and I figured out that if you have a kid who self-advocates, odds are he/she can get an excellent education at MCPS. But if you have someone who needs some extra attention and the kid is not a "squeaky wheel" and is "doing fine," then you are really sunk. MCPS will not provide "extra help" to any kid just because the parents think the kid is not performing up to potential. If the kid is meeting grade-level standards, if the kid is in advanced classes, then in my experience, the student "is doing fine." There is just not the motivation to encourage every kid to reach his potential. This can be especially troubling for really bright kids who did not make HGC and are now languishing in "advanced" academic classes, or kids who have differentiated learning abilities - very strong in math for example, but weak in English - or the reverse.  [/quote]

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