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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nysmith's curriculum is by far superior to AAP.[/quote]

Says...who?  Again, I’m sure it’s better in some things and not in others and vice versa. As for the awards, look at this hyped up example:  http://www.nysmith.com/nysmith-team-wins-highest-honors-in-wordmasters-challenge/

Fcps does wordmasters as well and scores very high, but doesn’t put blow by blows in the connection newspaper [/quote]

You are just JEALOUS. 2 kids from Nysmith getting the perfect score out of 22 kids in the whole of US is awesome !! What is hyped up in this and which FCPS school has such results. [/quote]

Uh, not jealous. Look at the results released yesterday. Nysmith ranked in ONE grade. Louise Archer did it in every grade. That’s one Fcps. So does that mean nysmith has tiny pockets of really bright kids and Fcps is more balanced?  This past result is a perfect example bc Louise Archer is a single school as is nysmith. [/quote]

My DCs attended Archer AAP program. Highly over rated. The HS Madison has gone down in the ratings and has very few attending TJ. Maybe they just don’t want to go to TJ. But mainly they didn’t get in. The counselor at Thoreau told us so few ever got in to not even bother to apply. Glad we passed on that advice. [/quote]

But if Louise Archer is overrated and does better than nysmith, then it would seem that Louise Archer has naturally brighter kids. It isn’t as if Louise Archer does that much work with the kids on wordmasters so either nysmith doesn’t either - and Archer is still outperforming - or nysmith does a lot of work On wordmasters - and Archer is still outperforming.

Point is that it supports the fact that nysmith isn’t for the super bright - they are probably smart, capable kids but many are those that attend bc they were rejected by the aap committee. [/quote]

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