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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IF both W schools and privates were free, what would you choose?[/quote]

I am a new poster and have not been able to read all 46 pages of this thread but I did skim through a it and approached our choice much like you posed this question.  We are in a W cluster but had considered private.  Particularly Bullis.  We decided to stick with our W cluster for many reasons but mostly because the diversity that you speak of at Bullis turned us off.  We went to a football game and all the kids they bussed in were playing and the remaining student section was not diverse at all.  I also truly believe that the math curriculm in our W cluster is leaps and bounds ahead of Bullis.  Other factors lead to our decision as well but in the end even if it was free we decided to pass on private.  In my opinion Private is worth it if you go for name recognition which is therefore only worth it when looking for single sex schools and that was not appealing for us.[/quote]

Students who play sports are also students who are in the classroom. The Bulls football program is one of the best high school football program in the US. It has phenomenal athletes that earn the attention of D1 schools for college scholarship opportunities. Same for other athletic programs at the school.

A better measurement of the academic atmosphere is a tour of the school during the school day. Unlike public schools, athletes wear the same uniform as all other students. There’s nothing on them that represents themselves as a football player.

For math, child left Churchill for Bullis specifically for their STEM program. There were more advanced classes at Bullis for math and electives not offered at Churchill.[b] The peer group for advanced math was around 12 students to Churchill’s 2 (hence why my son, if he stayed at Churchill, wouldn’t have a math class past 11th grade)[/b]. The top math, science, and AP economics classes were taught by university professors. The quality of instruction and availability for help during office hours was also a huge benefit at Bullis.

Finally, help with the college search process was another benefit of private. Counselors at Bullis have a small fraction of students compared to their MCPS counterparts. Bullis counselors actually have several meetings with students to help them come up with a list of colleges, read essays, and provide feedback. They also help students chunk out the deadlines. At Churchill there was zero help with navigating the college process.
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dp.. I call BS.  It's a simple numbers game.  Public schools like the Ws have way more students than Bullis, and many are also UMC.   There are way more high achieving students in public schools than there are at Bullis simply because there are more public school students than private schools.

if your DS was that advanced in math he could've gone to Blair STEM, but it seems to me that he is probably not intuitively advanced as much as he is coached to be advanced. And yes, a lot of public school students are also tutored and coached to be advanced in math, as well, but they don't send their kids to private because they think private is much more advanced in STEM than Blair, for example.

BS meter is showing all the way to the right.[/quote]

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