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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Ok thanks everyone. I really appreciate the responses.

Serious question then - why private school if they don’t differentiate any better than public?

He’s in a Spanish immersion school, which we hoped would help enrich him a bit… and it has. But with Covid learning interruption they are still doing kindergarten level Spanish in third grade. He picks up languages very quickly so it’s another thing that’s now way too easy for him.

He’s a normal kid.  He doesn’t want to take extra schooling on weekends or after school. He wants to ride bikes with friends and play with legos - and I value those things for him too.  I do understand there are other ways he can learn to overcome a challenge - he’s been interested in starting guitar lessons, etc. - but there is a uniqueness to the school environment, and with the sheer amount of time spent there, I was hoping to find a place where he could actually be challenged regularly.

Thanks for the feedback though.  Back to the drawing board I guess! [/quote]

Not sure if you are considering remaining in the immersion track but WIS or Rochambeau may be more lenient for a capable child out-of-cycle if they have an opening in that grade. I called around and asked who was willing to take out of cycle admissions last year before deciding our best bet was to stay put and apply regular cycle. However, I found the admissions offices pretty willing to discuss if they would consider an out cycle placement and for which grade.

FWIW, regarding your will private be challenging. We now find our private far more engaging and challenging than the immersion public we were in last year. Also, my kiddo has a Fall birthday so was one of the oldest in DCPS but is middle of pack age wise at her private because many summer birthdays red shirted which I think makes the group more challenging in the early years. She is still linguistically strong but being stretched more on some of the science/math assignments compared to DCPS. I think you get a pretty good vibe which schools will be challenging and which ones will not from the orientation.  For example, one school mentioned rereading the same book repeatedly to reinforce phonetic associations and we immediately crossed that one off the list knowing our kid would not even sit still for that funness. [/quote]

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