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Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear why people are making the switch to public? I keep hearing about it going the other way.

Because private schools are not the right place for gifted students. There is a lot of disdain of AAP but it's a real GT program and private schools don't have that and don't want that.

It is absolutely not a gifted and talented program. My child's ES does the AAP curriculum for all students. 1/3 of them get advanced math. LLIV AAP is JUST advanced math.

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Anonymous wrote:We followed the instruction and the child was admitted.

We then helped a couple of interested classmates get in on appeal. Two big errors are not prepping for the COGAT and not answering the parent questions succinctly and to the point.

Troll alert.

Not really trolling, this is the truth. Private school kids have limited experience with long multiple choice tests. They need extensive practice to do well enough to be in that top 1% nationally / top 10% per assigned school. Of course, private school kids are not really placed in pool, but generally speaking if the COGAT is high enough to be in pool, and the application is equipped with congruent GBRS and reasonable work samples, they will be admitted.

Uh, public school kids also have no experience with long multiple choice tests in 2nd grade. And the Cogat is not a long multiple choice tests.

Probably best for your DC to stay in private. Wouldn't want to have to be in the same classes as public school kids.

Stop lying. Our own public school kids have had a ton of experience with tests in 2nd grade. We got cheap Cogat workbooks from amazon, and thankfully they costed less than mcdonald quarter pounder with cheese, world famous fries with tangy barbeque sauce, and chocolate shake medium size to complete the meal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear why people are making the switch to public? I keep hearing about it going the other way.

Because private schools are not the right place for gifted students. There is a lot of disdain of AAP but it's a real GT program and private schools don't have that and don't want that.

This. Private schools are great for that middle of the road kid who flies under the radar in public. Well behaved, tries hard, but eclipsed by higher achievers and trampled by behavior issues.

Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear why people are making the switch to public? I keep hearing about it going the other way.

1) We did private for in person during Covid. As soon as public fully reopened we came back. Private was fine, but it wasn’t worth $30k once regular public school was an option.
2) they admitted they didn’t have the resources or flexibility to accelerate since it was a small school.
3) I wanted to be a part of the neighborhood school community, to have neighbors be classmates, know the other parents in the neighborhood, etc (the importance of this one cannot be overstated—private was extremely lonely/isolating outside of school hours)

Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear why people are making the switch to public? I keep hearing about it going the other way.

Because private schools are not the right place for gifted students. There is a lot of disdain of AAP but it's a real GT program and private schools don't have that and don't want that.