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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article is from 2014.

TJ (a fcps public) had the highest SAT scores in the nation.

Sidwell (a DC private) was #16.

http://www.businessinsider.com/high-schools-with-highest-sat-scores-2014-1[/quote]

Magnet schools are effectively publicly funded privates. Instead of paying for your child's exclusive program yourself, all of the taxpayers in your district are paying for it.[/quote]

True. But private kids can't compete with magnet kids. Not even close. [/quote]

True dat. DH judges a MS academic competition that pulls kids from MOCo, gunning for Blain, and Longfellow, RR and Carson, gunning for TJ, and some top DC area private schools, and has remarked how the TJ and Blair candidate kids are blowing the Sidwell et al. crew out of the water. Certainly it shows up in final team placements. His theory from judging is that the public school kids may not be smarter, but they work much, much harder.  They certainly appear to take it more seriously, and I know that the kids from DC's school (including DC) often put 20+ hours a week into this one extracurricular, outside of a heavy AAP academic load.

On the TJ side, at least, it is also interesting how much higher the admit rate is from a RR/ Carson/Longfellow vs private schools, which have a very tough time getting kids into TJ. [/quote]

Cool story![/quote]

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