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There is this thing called testing.  Maybe you should do some research.[/quote]

So to compare a given public elementary school with a given private elementary school, we'd use results from standardized tests? But I thought that private elementary schools don't give standardized tests, don't teach to standardized tests, etc. I thought that was one of the major advantages of private elementary schools.[/quote]

You have to take tests to be admitted to private school. They are much more rigorous than the standard MCPS testing, and your child is being tested against other children who are on a college prep track, so the pool of students is higher. This was enlightening for us. Our son was in "honors English" in MCPS, accelerated a year ahead. We thought he was deficient in writing. School thought he was "fine" - top 1/2 of boys in accelerated class in another of those darn Bethesda schools. The private school testing, conducted on more than one occasion showed him to be in the bottom 1/2 of the testing pool. Same kid, vastly different expectations for educational attainment. [/quote]

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