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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had the exact same child (except no sport interest) and I can only give you the advice my child's 4th grade teacher at the JKL school told me: he will get left behind at Deal because teachers there are either dealing with troublemakers or highly motivated children, and his cohort of friends will be in that latter group and he will be left in the dust.  That's all I needed to hear.  We entered the lottery and got the charter we wanted, but private was absolutely our next move.  Motivation matters a great deal as they leave elementary, and if your child doesn't have it and doesn't really fit into a category, the teachers will move on.  The shear numbers dictate that.  Great yeachers who are given a chance in a smaller setting can pull your child's potential out.  [/quote]

I have this child too and I can tell you that this is not at all what we have experienced at all at Deal.  Mine went straight into very advanced math in 6th grade at Deal (and wasn't the only child in the class) and was happy with the ELA and science programs plus challenged by the language.  We didn't need to supplement outside but only with Hopkins CYT programs.  DC got into SWW and is one of the kids in the GW program.  I still have kids at Deal and all have been pushed especially in math.  In all the years we have spent at Deal we have found very few troublemakers but a ton of teachers willing to push kids and work with them afterschool or in the classroom to make sure their needs are being met.[/quote]

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