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[quote=Anonymous]Having sent a kid through NW DC public schools through Deal, and now doing extremely well at a high-academic private high school, my opinion is that anybody who is worried about academics in NW DC public schools for an elementary student is worrying about things that don't need to be worried about.

If your kid would be happier in a different environment, that's cool.  But if your kid is happy, and if they can spend their time doing things other than academics in elementary and even middle school, and if you can tell your kid in high school that they might need to work harder, then seriously there is no problem.

There is also a great benefit to being in a public school with people of very different learning abilities and styles.  Much of being an adult is being able to work in groups where people do not always process things in the same way.  Put your kid in a high-status high-academic environment at an early age and they miss the very real benefit of learning how to work well with people across a wide range of brain styles.[/quote]

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