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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because public school class sizes are huge, there's a range of abilities that is impossible for even the most seasoned teacher to accommodate, and well behaved kids who are on or above grade level are ignored. The established private schools aren't stupid and have done a good job advertising to UMC families of solid students who are increasingly fed up. Throw in a modest merit scholarship for the ones with top grades and test scores and it's not a hard sell.[/quote]

I think privates also heavily appeal to those who are well-behaved students at or above grade level but below the top grades and top test score bracket.

Looking at my particular location in FCPS it seems like there's two options for classrooms in our public--there's the public school classrooms like you describe where teachers are mostly managing the kids who are trouble, and then there's the full-time AAP classroom (with the hope of getting into TJ) which is intensely competitive and a pressure cooker and STEM focused and rejects a lot of these well-behaved kids who are at or above grade level.

It's not quite as bad as in NYC, but I definitely see a lot of these nice kids at or above grade level who aren't the super-intense math superstars and their families researching private options. 
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