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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny, my sidwell friends high schooler neighbor was in robotics club and the school got him a $10k grant to work in the science contest robotic submarine plus found an indoor pool to work in it. He went ivy for ugrad and grad- in biochem.
That STEM kid worked his butt off but loved every second of it (high school at SFS). He turned down Blair magnet, plus other private schools. [/quote]

The Blair robotics team has a budget of 40k+[/quote]

Privates have never fared well when compared to public magnets, but for wealthy parents whose kids couldn't make the cut its a fine option. If a public had similar SES to a private, it would likely perform similarly.[/quote]

Holton Arms won the Maryland State Chemathon last year at UMD. I think they have maybe 300 upper school girls only and one AP Chem class of 15 girls a year.  Beat out all the MCPS magnet schools that recruit from a pool of 48,000 students.

So it isn’t like these private schools are rich idiots. Most have 30% of their kids on financial aid and most thoroughly teach these kids with zero grade inflation, small class sizes with lecture grades, graded projects, oral assignments, and absolutely no grading curves or retakes on tests.   They also show actual number grades on reports cards and only give a 0.5 boost with AP’s that will only be shown on a final GPA. Never on a report card. There are minimal honors classes as most classes are just known to be rigorous.

MCPS grading system is a joke. No finals, curved tests, retakes allowed, no oral or lecture assignments, almost every class that is not remedial is honors or AP which means an additional 1.0 boost on every class. A grade that shows a semester grade of 84.5 as an A BEFORE the 1.0 boost. So you can sit here and say public magnets are the cream of the crop. That is fine. I had two kids go thru high school. One at a private and another IB.  You truly need to work for your A’s at private. And if you are truly smart, your report card will stand out. You don’t stand out in public. Everyone has A’s and there are too many of them.

So take your magnets. My 3rd is going private for a complete education.

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