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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly this is a useless thread without knowing the specific middle school and private school. We pulled my kid from a public middle school where DC had the highest GPA and was in the most advanced math course but was basically a year behind when DC got to private HS. And that’s not even talking about the serious safety issues such as the fights, the kids who OD’d on campus, the ambulances that showed up at school, and the kids who vaped in class.

So if I was advising OP, my advice would be to prepare much easier and very weak academics, vaping in class, serious problems with drug culture, and never using the bathroom because of the danger and filth there. But that’s if she’s going from a rigorous private to the specific public middle school my kid attended. She could be going from a hippie Waldorfy type private where she’s never had homework to one of the middle school that are supposedly academically rigorous. Or going from a small private that serves a primarily religious and poorer community to one of the wealthy public schools, where brand name is everything. Those are going to be a very different experiences. [/quote]

I’m the PP who wrote this. OP, thanks for giving a bit more information. I’m not in NoVA so will not advise further. Good luck! [/quote]

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