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[quote=Anonymous]My experience - three children, my oldest is now in high school.  Elementary, middle and high school are all above 50% FARMS.

Good: in elementary, the class sizes are very small.  My oldest only had 14 in first grade.  My kids have had several great teachers who had control of the classrooms.  Those years, there was differentiation and I felt they were getting a great education.  One year, my middle son was pulled out by the reading specialist to get extra help.  He was reading way above grade level.  This past year, my youngest was pulled out weekly for advanced word study.  The two oldest started compacted math in 4th grade (my youngest is not a math kid).  In the middle school and high school, my oldest is taking all honors.  Almost all of his classmates are strong, motivated learners.  I went on a field trip when he was in 8th grade to the Baltimore Science Center.  His classmates were very polite, well behaved children.  His high school is definitely a school within a school and I'm confident he'll be well prepared for college.

Bad: Most of the children in our neighborhood go to other schools.  My children have very few neighborhood friends, because they don't know them.  They have very few friends from school.  Most of their friends are kids they've met in outside activities and I have to drive them so they can get together.  Most years, the elementary school has had very few after school enrichment activities.  Some years, we haven't had any.  Other years, we might have one or two clubs.  We have very few parent volunteers.  I think we have a high turnover rate of teachers.  I've had a child at the elementary school for 11 years - this year there are only 3 classroom teachers who were there when my oldest started kindergarten.

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