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Gosh we feel like we met so many not so bright social climbing parents raising kids without moral compasses and with behavioral problems at our JKLM fortunately they all go to private schools now.  And honestly smart kids do not = that intelligent kids.  Gifted kids from that group?  They go to BASIS.  That is my recommendation for a STEM gifted kid willing to work hard, and I mean hard.  BASIS is an oasis after being in an intellectual desert that is also known as Spring Valley/AU Park/Palisades. Not to say there are not some really smart cool parents with smart cool kids there, but betting on that?  And betting that your class will have those kids?  Not a good bet.  If I had it to do over, we would have tried for Yu Ying and then gone to BASIS.  BASIS is definitely our oasis.  No joke.  And very hard to find in the DC metro area, public or private, until high school unless you are willing to put up with the BASIS crap for the intellectual stimulation that your kids will get and the peer group which is fairly unparallelled[/quote]

I'm confused - is BASIS an elementary school with a gifted program?[/quote]

BASIS is not a gifted program per se. It offers accelerated but doable with hard work curricula. It starts in 5th grade and will go through 12th grade. In the next few years they are exploring adding which they already offer K-4 as well in Arizona.[/quote]

So... neither a gifted program nor an elementary school.  Thanks for posting in this thread.[/quote]

NP here.  Get off your high horse.  The premise of this thread was so faulty that nothing could be said other than "absolutely not."  PP is trying to give advice that may help someone with a gifted kid in DC.[/quote]
Given the GoFundMe thread this poster started, I'd say the odds of that ever happening are around the same as me winning the lottery ten times in a row.[/quote]

Why would anyone who had ever passed a respectable math class play the lottery?!  The lottery is a tax on people who cannot do math.[/quote]

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