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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So people are really playing along the OP's illiterate kid managed to get admitted to private in the most competitive admissions cycle ever in a non-entry year? [/quote]

NP.  There are alot of privates in this area.  I don't understand why this is so unimaginable to you.[/quote]

FCPS has academics on par with or better than the open admission independents. The competitive admit independents wouldn't take OPs kid especially in a non-entry year when there are tons of other applicants coming out of public who can do all the things that OP complains her kid can't do. [/quote]

As other parochial school parents have noted, those schools focus on spelling and writing and things like note-taking skills through the lower grades, so its not hard to imagine that a kid who didn't get direct instruction in those areas might find it challenging, even if they were an A/B student in FCPS.

Also, the child might have an inherent LD that wasn't evident in a school that didn't check spelling.   I have a very bright kid with a phonological processing disorder that impacts his spelling that we didn't pick up on until the end of third grade.   He was smart enough to cover for it until he couldn't.  It's very possible op's child has something similar going on that has flown under the radar until now, when he's in a school that doesn't let things like poor spelling slide.  [/quote]

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