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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  This is good information and I appreciate it.  I wanted a realistic understanding of what to expect even if it isn't good news.   Thanks to the PP who suggested the Johns Hopkins CTY program.  I'll look into that.  Yes, yes, I know that 99.6 is actually average among DC darlings.

To the snarky PP who says "any of these elementary schools will offer your child a more robust program than you are used to" and it "far surpasses" any local private, chip on your shoulder much?   My kid has been getting an extraordinary science / STEM education since pre-K, 3 times a week.  It's just not enough to justify the $30K if I can get the equivalent for free somewhere. 
  
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Lovely Op.  Sorry that you don't like the answers you have gotten and that you think it is snarky, but it is pretty widely acknowledged that the HGCs in Moco offer a more robust curriculum than do the private schools at this grade level.  One could argue that things level out and that privates can surpass Moco at the high school level.  Weird that you are so knee-jerk in your defensiveness about the private school that, by your own admission, you are leaving in favor of a hope of admission the Moco HGC.  I think you may be a hot-house-flower that needs the coddling and assistance that the private school world offers.  Reality is that there are very competitive, very competent, smart students who land the spots at the HGC -- it really isn't a second choice to private school for the kids in those schools.  It sounds like you want to stay at your private but just can afford it.  Maybe that is why you seem so conflicted in your postings.

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I'm not OP but geezy peezy. You're the one who seems like a hot house flower.  Get over yourself.[/quote]

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