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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amazing how many of you have actually engaged in this ugly discussion.  Yay!  My child is smarter than those other children!  I'm such a great parent!

Ugh.  [/quote]

Not OP, in fact a NP. But you guys seem to be focusing on one small part of OP's post, which was the three words: "outperform the lifers."

The rest of OP's post, which contained many more words, asked whether going to a Big 3 for elementary school was worth it in terms of preparing your kid for a competitive high school. I think that's a valid question. If your kid can learn good work habits and a love of learning at many schools in the area, is it worth all the stress you see on DCUM about getting into Sidwell for K?[/quote]

Not OP either, but I think you have highlighted the most compelling part of all of this. I have always believed its too hard to predict what my childrens' needs will be 3, 5, 7, 10, etc years out, since I am not a psychic and don't own a crystal ball! Your delightful 4 year old will evolve and change into a young adolescent who you may not recognize at all! So with school choice, like anything else, you just continue to evaluate and adjust as necessary. Many, many people start at one school and then move to another. The thing that bugs me about this board is that when a person gets an admission to Beauvoir/NCS/STA, Sidwell, GDS or Maret, the reaction is as if they have won the lottery. I wish more respect was shown on this board for all of the wonderful schools in the DC area. My goodness, aren't we fortunate to have so many amazing public, charter, private, independent and/or parochial options to choose from. My feeling about most things in life is if you like it, I love it. Different strokes for different folks. I have one child that went all the way through a Big 3, graduated and is now at Villanova, another who had to leave that same Big 3 at 3rd grade (and transferred to what you all would call a "2nd tier private K-8 and then public HS -- is an 11th grader now -- btw, the counseling out process was handled HORRIBLY by the school, they were so dismissive and mean) and third child who was always been in public school and is currently a middle schooler. Quite honestly, at the lower grades, the Big 3 was NO better than the 2nd tier private, or MoCo public. People just want the cachet of a big name school. We found the parent body to be obnoxious, pretentious and overbearing and the academic requirements to be stressful from the earliest grades for no reason. 3 hours of homework for a 2nd grader? We've just always tried to find the best match for each of our kids. Quite honestly, our best experience school-wise, as it relates to all around great experience was at the private K-8. I think the nicest and most grounded & down to earth people send their kids to K-8 schools. And thats reflected in their kids. When I started this school journey, it was BIg 3 or bust. Honestly, I have learned through the process that things are not perfect ANYWHERE and school cachet is a bunch of malarkey. Do whats best for your kid, pay attention and then adjust course when its necessary. [/quote]

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