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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  I went to a crappy public school, was at the top of my class, went to an Ivy League school and did very well.  I think if you have common sense and didn't have helicopter parents coaching you all throughout school, you can do great in college if you did well in high school.  Many of my peers were just used to having their parents monitor everything for them--they were from upper middle class backgrounds.  I was working class and the first in my family to go to college, so no one checked my homework for me, made sure i was taking the right classes, etc.  [/quote]
I too went from mediocre big public high school to an Ivy, but really struggled at first. My classmates who had gone to private or great public schools were better clearly prepared--many spoke a second language, had more rigorous science courses, had taken lots of AP classes (mine offered only one). For that reason while I'm fine with having my kids attend DCPS for elementary, I'll be looking hard at the middle school and high schools to see if they're challenging enough. If not I think they can still go public but we'll look to supplement with academic summer camps etc.   [/quote]

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