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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think if the child has educated parents, the benefits of private really start in middle school.  That's when we moved our kids to private.  Before that, if there are any deficiencies, they can usually be made up at home.[/quote]

I disagree. IME private has afforded my child with critical social/emotional learning opportnities in the early grades that publics don't have the luxury to provide since [b]they must obsess from day one of K about performance on standardized tests.[/b][/quote]

I think that parents who have not had a child in public school may overestimate the effect of this. Here is a list of all of the standardized tests that children take in MCPS in K-2:

Maryland Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (once, at the beginning of kindergarten)
MAP-P (three times a year, in K-2)

That's it.

More about the Maryland Kindergarten Readiness Assessment:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/marylands-kindergartners-face-important-early-test-of-their-readiness-for-school/2014/10/31/62a11caa-60fd-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html

The MCPS elementary school testing calendar: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/calendar/estesting.aspx[/quote]

And yet my mcps Kindergartener is taking the PARCC test[/quote]

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