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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is a rising 7th at Robinson SS. We've heard good things about it from neighbors who seem happy. It does seem middle of the road compared to Woodson, McLean, Langley, etc. but honestly I feel that most public schools in the area are pretty much the same. We supplement with tutoring classes and extracurricular like other families in FFX co. On the upside, we love our neighborhood and the walkability to the ES and secondary school. We had thought of sending kid to Lake Braddock for continued AAP but it didn't seem worth it. We like walking to school so that won out. [/quote]

Thank you PP. We are another AAP family sending our kid to Robinson for 7th. We also live like a five minute walk away. It just doesn't make sense to tack on a bus ride when there's a perfectly good school right here.[/quote]

You are choosing being able to walk to school over receiving a more rigorous education with overall more capable peers?  That is insane, and that is why Robinson underperforms its demographics - the community there has messed up values.[/quote]

We choose to defer AAP and keep our kid at his base school. It has Advanced Math and a regular Level III pull out. We did not want to change schools and the Center he was going to is one that is stupid competitive. He is in ES, he doesn't need to be competing with kids for 4s or whatever the hell it is the kids are competing for at his Center school. And you know what? We are not alone. 70% of the parents whose kids are accepted into AAP at our Base school don't send them to the Center. Every year, there are kids who return form the Center school to the base school.

We feed into Carson by the way. There are plenty of really good ES that don't have Level IV or have Local Level IV. Many parents don't see attending a Center as the end all and be all of our kids academic life. I strongly suspect that my kid will do great in High School, regardless of deferring Level IV placement.

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