Anonymous wrote:My DD went to elementary school at a highly regarded private school in NYC. We moved to MD right before she entered middle school and decided to try public since the schools where we moved are considered very good, much better than our public option in NYC.

In her private elementary school we were consistently told she was very smart, advanced and at the top of the class academically. However, since she entered middle school (started in 6th and currently in 7th) all we are hearing from teachers is that she is on grade level and middle of the road, but they don’t consider her to be advanced. That is totally fine, but DD keeps telling us she is bored and doesn’t feel like the work is hard for her. She gets 100% on most tests (or above 90% at the worst). She breezes through homework very quickly and when I check her work it’s all correct.

We have had a few conversations with her teachers and counselor and all they tell us is that she is right where she should be and they don’t think she needs more of a challenge, or that she would benefit from more accelerated classes.

Has anyone else experienced this? Not sure if it’s just a matter of resources and we need to find other ways to push DD, but overall it feels like she is getting disinterested in school whereas she used to be much more into it, and we really don’t want her to lose a passion for learning.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD went to elementary school at a highly regarded private school in NYC. We moved to MD right before she entered middle school and decided to try public since the schools where we moved are considered very good, much better than our public option in NYC.

In her private elementary school we were consistently told she was very smart, advanced and at the top of the class academically. However, since she entered middle school (started in 6th and currently in 7th) all we are hearing from teachers is that she is on grade level and middle of the road, but they don’t consider her to be advanced. That is totally fine, but DD keeps telling us she is bored and doesn’t feel like the work is hard for her. She gets 100% on most tests (or above 90% at the worst). She breezes through homework very quickly and when I check her work it’s all correct.

We have had a few conversations with her teachers and counselor and all they tell us is that she is right where she should be and they don’t think she needs more of a challenge, or that she would benefit from more accelerated classes.

Has anyone else experienced this? Not sure if it’s just a matter of resources and we need to find other ways to push DD, but overall it feels like she is getting disinterested in school whereas she used to be much more into it, and we really don’t want her to lose a passion for learning.

When my kids were in private school, there were two or three really bright kids per class. There was no differentiation in math. When they moved to public school, there were classrooms full of bright students in advanced classes.

It depends on the private school. Some are aimed more for the gifted and actually have high score and IQ cutoffs. But I agree, a general ed progressive private school often is less rigorous in math than a magnet or large public high school.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD went to elementary school at a highly regarded private school in NYC. We moved to MD right before she entered middle school and decided to try public since the schools where we moved are considered very good, much better than our public option in NYC.

In her private elementary school we were consistently told she was very smart, advanced and at the top of the class academically. However, since she entered middle school (started in 6th and currently in 7th) all we are hearing from teachers is that she is on grade level and middle of the road, but they don’t consider her to be advanced. That is totally fine, but DD keeps telling us she is bored and doesn’t feel like the work is hard for her. She gets 100% on most tests (or above 90% at the worst). She breezes through homework very quickly and when I check her work it’s all correct.

We have had a few conversations with her teachers and counselor and all they tell us is that she is right where she should be and they don’t think she needs more of a challenge, or that she would benefit from more accelerated classes.

Has anyone else experienced this? Not sure if it’s just a matter of resources and we need to find other ways to push DD, but overall it feels like she is getting disinterested in school whereas she used to be much more into it, and we really don’t want her to lose a passion for learning.

When my kids were in private school, there were two or three really bright kids per class. There was no differentiation in math. When they moved to public school, there were classrooms full of bright students in advanced classes.

Anonymous wrote:My DD went to elementary school at a highly regarded private school in NYC. We moved to MD right before she entered middle school and decided to try public since the schools where we moved are considered very good, much better than our public option in NYC.

In her private elementary school we were consistently told she was very smart, advanced and at the top of the class academically. However, since she entered middle school (started in 6th and currently in 7th) all we are hearing from teachers is that she is on grade level and middle of the road, but they don’t consider her to be advanced. That is totally fine, but DD keeps telling us she is bored and doesn’t feel like the work is hard for her. She gets 100% on most tests (or above 90% at the worst). She breezes through homework very quickly and when I check her work it’s all correct.

We have had a few conversations with her teachers and counselor and all they tell us is that she is right where she should be and they don’t think she needs more of a challenge, or that she would benefit from more accelerated classes.

Has anyone else experienced this? Not sure if it’s just a matter of resources and we need to find other ways to push DD, but overall it feels like she is getting disinterested in school whereas she used to be much more into it, and we really don’t want her to lose a passion for learning.

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That said, the average kid in MCPS and NoVA public schools are some of the smartest in the country. They will blow away private school kids in NYC, many of whom are there merely because they are rich. Your daughter would probably be "middle of the road" if she was attending upper-income suburban public schools in NJ, Westchester, Long Island, or Massachusetts.

Dude that’s just bullshit. I’ve lived in Greater Boston area, Seattle and Dallas, and there are smart kids everywhere. DC isn’t that special. Seattle suburban public schools were crazy competitive given concentration of tech workers there.