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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, we're West End.  We were at two different privates (the second, very well known), and[b] were disappointed by literally everything from academics (this region simply does not have tremendous private schools) to plain ol' nastiness. [/b] We enrolled DC in an ACPS public, and we were astounded.  It was terrific.  We've stayed in ACPS and DC is now at TC.  Doing ACPS without support isn't something we'd recommend, but if your DC is capable and doesn't need a great deal of academic support in order to perform well, consider your ACPS options.  
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That's interesting. Can you elaborate?[/quote]

This is 20:59.  We were astounded to learn that all but two of the NOVA privates actually use the regular VA state curriculum as their own, but don't even comprehensively test on it.  One school was a "progressive" program -- in math, the kids in an early year were taught only addition and multiplication, because the teacher thought subtraction and especially division were just too hard (said they would "pick that up").  Essentially all projects were group projects, so we saw middle-schoolers struggling with very-first-time individual tests and reports.  The school was really a recreational project for stay-at-home parents; essentially, their version of a private club.  The stay-at-home parents used to just show up in classrooms and "help," meaning actually yeah and try to critique students.  Valueless and quite invasive.

Curious now. How about Episcopal & St. Stephens?

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