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[quote=Anonymous]What I'm taking away from this is that private school is a good place for kids in the 90-98th pctile. First, private schools will have at least a handful of these kids in a class, and fewer kids at the bottom end, so to the extent differentiation is possible, it's more possible in private schools. Second, these kids probably won't get into magnets, which are for the top 2%. If your hone school is Whitman, the 90-95th pctile kid will have lots of company and few problems being challenged, but this isn't true of many other MoCo publics. I'm not sure about the reliability of the ERB data either, or whether it translates directly to IQ scores. I doubt it, because ERBs are also a function of how well a school is teaching - in fact, that's why they're used for school accreditation. It would seem wrong to accredit schools based on the IQ of the student body, if that is really what the ERB measures.[/quote]
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