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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools might be better equipped to differentiate for your child. They have smaller class sizes and more resources. DCPS will do absolutely nothing for your child. [/quote]

They won't differentiate but the baseline standard will be much higher at the top privates.

My kids are not profoundly gifted but I would say they maxed out the DCPS curriculum (Algebra 2 in 8th, 99% PARCC scores, each subject every time they were tested 3rd through 8th, 98-99% in all subjects in middle school.

They went on to a "Big3" high schools (Sidwell, NCS) and they were/are probably at the 85% in their respective classes in terms of academic ability.  These schools draw from all over the DMV (far and wide) and get some real academic outliers.  Profoundly gifted? No; but a decent peer cohort of impressively bright and motivated kids.  [/quote]. Looking for a “decent peer cohort of impressively bright and motivated kids” without paying 30-45K in tuition and parking your kid in a cocoon environment populated by a gaggle of self-involved rich kids? Try any one of the dozen DCPS elementary schools with an at-risk percentage in the single digits. For middle school, if you have lottery luck, BASIS. Outside school, have your kid play an instrument, attend heritage language schools on weekends, host au pairs to help them learn a language if you can swing it, get them involved in competitive chess, robotics, math and science competitions.  Send them to Mathnasium where the sky’s the limit on the math challenge they can take on. Your kid doesn’t need to be sheltered in a private school with wealthy peers to thrive intellectually or socially in this city or any other. -Signed triple Ivy grad who graduated from an ordinary small town HS[/quote]

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