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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, if you're concerned about challenge at Deal, why have you enrolled your kid? Why didn't you do what my sister did, moved to a suburban county for 5th grade so her child could take the test to enter an all-GT 6th-8th grade program (which the child cracked)? Alternatively, why didn't you apply her to private schools if you can afford private? Or homeschool if you can swing it?

You're obviously not going to find appropriate challenge across the board for a really smart kid in public school in a city that has long eschewed formal K-8th GT programs due to obnoxious racial politics. So what's keeping you in the DC public system?

Hint: Wilson won't offer appropriate challenge either. It's honors for everybody in 9th grade there now.

You have a choice, you can make do by making the effort, and spending the dough, to supplement extensively, or you can bail. Sorry, but you can't find appropriate challenge across the board at any DC public school because it's not there. [/quote]

Wow, you must have significant, wide-ranging, first-hand experience with DCPS. Can you tell us about it? I have a kid at Deal (and another in ES), but I wouldn't feel comfortable speaking with this level of confidence about Deal, much less the school system at large. Please share--we'd love to learn from your obviously extensive experience![/quote]

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