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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: peer environment . . . spoke with a former parent at Chavez and a coach of an opposing team and they both expressed the same sentiments about it being a "rough." Of course, I took both comments with a grain of salt, which is way I am doing my own research.

I guess the more reliable reference that I had was from a neighborhood boy that cut my grass for several years. He eventually transferred to MoCo and told me that in the new school the "kids were really focused on learning." While he cut my grass, I would sit and talk with him about things and try to give him a little advice. That one conversation really stuck in my mind, of course, it was the same day that Michael Jackson died too. [/quote]

Did the coach and the neighbor say the school was rough the whole way through? Sometimes the early years are ok but the upper grades at a school (k-6 at Chavez, right?) can be problematic. Our school is kind of like that, though I wouldn't call it "rough" really. You lose kids to the TAG programs at 2nd, then again for 6th because a lot switch to Catholic just for middle school *and* you lose a new batch to the 6-8 TAG center at the middle school that year too.  So you have a kind of steady outflux of TAG kids and some of the more involved parents as you go up the grades. But you don't have that in kinder or first. If you think your child might get TAG identified, you'd have that "out" coming up too, so maybe staying put would make sense. I know you don't always know with kids when they are little about TAG or not, but if you just did private apps for this year you might have an idea from their testing.

**side note - does anyone know why PG County has the weird mismatch of K-6 schools that feed into 6-8 middle schools? [/quote]

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