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[quote=Anonymous]"I keep hearing folks whose kids go to private - that GT curriculum is pretty weak and not all that what it is hyped up to be in these forums."

First off whether one goes to the best public school, private or AAP/Magnet school, its not going to make your child any smarter or less intellegent for that matter.  For some reason I think many on this site have lost sight of this.  For the quote above, it sounds like someone is trying to justify their tuition payment to the private school.  The average SAT over at Langley High is 1200 for the Math/Verbal combination.  Without seeing the numbers, I doubt the privates average significantly much better and there is no way the majority of these Langley kids came up through the gifted program.  The balance of the Fairfax Schools are lower but still even most average above 1100 on SATs which is demonstrating there are a lot of kids worthy of college.  One might say they are speaking of Elementary Education which does not really matter.  The same kids going through high school in Fairfax county went through the Fairfax County Public Educatinoal System as well.
Remember TJ is a public school.  I assume we would be in agreement that TJ is worthy of praise and the best school in the DC metro area, public or private.  It would be amazing that Fairfax could get TJ right but not the Elementary GT programs.  So for those you are speaking with that actually believe there is justification for to go to a private school over a public GT program, it almost sounds like their kids were not selected for the public gifted program and you are hearing sour grapes.  It would be helpful if you could go back to the "folks" you are speaking with and ask them to better justify their position of why the GT curriculum is pretty weak compared to a private school and report back to us.  Many would like to see if there is a marginal 15K-20K benefit for their kids to attend a private school
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