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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wootton and Churchill HS for comparison.

Metrics:   AP scores, SAT scores, national and regional academic prizes

Bullis is a good school but the public schools offer more rigorous courses in a number of subjects and have much stronger students taking those rigorous courses than Bullis.  In these instances size and numbers become a disadvantage for Bullis.[/quote]

This comparison disregards the facts that not everyone can afford to live in the Churchill or a W catchment area and that many people who can afford it choose not to, for one reason or another.  So even granting that Churchill or a W school are the gold standard, which many DCUMs seem to accept (and which I certainly don't want to debate), there are a whole lot of people who are not going to pack up and move to Potomac or Bethesda for high school.  The no-better-than-public catchall statement fails to take this into account.

I don't have a child at Bullis.  I am just puzzled by the multitude of posts on this forum that categorically claim a particular school is no better than public school, as if (a) all public schools are the same and (b) all children are the same.  [/quote]

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