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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, we're pitting HGC & magnet vs "regular schools." Meanwhile, even the "second tier" privates are surpassing the best MoCo schools. I was shocked, shocked, shocked when I toured privates. That is the real achievement gap: private education vs. public. The privates I toured much more closely resembled my public school circa 1970s/80s than MCPS of today.[/quote]

That's really interesting.  I toured a lot of privates about four years ago when figuring out what to do with second DC regarding middle school.  I was actually surprised that the privates weren't more advanced, and I saw some things that shocked me, like a teacher writing something with a big grammaticaly mistake on the board in one of the more well known Bethesda privates.

I have a DC who's been in test-in magnets since 4th grade and is now in a high school magnet, and my impression is that he has received an education on a par with or above any private I've seen -- really quite impressive.  My second child, who attends schools in a "W" cluster but is not in a magnet, has not received nearly as high a level of content or instruction.

So in my view a lot of this is both curriculum content and expectations.  [/quote]

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