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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of the schools mentioned here are warm, nice communities with good specials, but they are not necessarility "academically rigorous" in the sense that you mean. Parents need to be aware of and manage their expectations, especially when they move from paying nothing for school to $21,000 or more. In most private elementary schools you are usually paying for more/better specials and a nice community, not for a more rigorous education or better teachers. [/quote]

You're also getting smaller class sizes, teachers who are not beholden to test prep all the time, and better differentiation.  Academic rigor is in the eye of the beholder.  [/quote]

Sure, in some cases, but we need to be honest. I like our private school, but I acknowledge that teacher quality varies, students take ERBs so there is test prep, and there is no math differentiation. Parents' expectations around these things varies. Take math, for example. Some parents who supplement in math because of the lack of differentiation or because they think the curriculum is generally weak, and those parents would say good differentiated math instruction is part of what "rigor" means to them. So it's important to examine your expectations going in or you may set yourself up for disappointment. So using the math example, if you want a private elementary school in MD that can match what an HGC offers in terms of math acceleration and differentiation, you need to be specific about that when you look at schools. [/quote]

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