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I have also heard Sherman say that he has no interest in competing for private school students.  I heard him say this at a fairly small meeting, so it must be part of his standard spiel.  As someone who was trying to make the decision between ACPS and private at the time, and was attending the meeting with Mr. Sherman to see if he would say anything that would change my mind, I have to say that this comment was the clincher.  Not only because if confirmed my suspicion that ACPS was not interested in helping my child achieve to his highest potential, but because it demonstrated such a defeatist attitude.  ACPS strives to give an adequate education to the students that already go there.  [/quote]

I have to say that, if that's what you'd read into his comments, then it's probably in everyone's best interests that you went private.  I take his comments to be a candid acknowledgment that TC is a public school, not a private school, and that it can't promise parents that their children will get the individualized attention that they would receive at a local private.  It's not defeatist, nor does it demonstrate that ACPS only seeks to provide its students with a merely "adequate" education.  [/quote]

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