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Re: what triggered the realization

I've been concerned for a while (first concerns before my oldest entered Kindergarten) that our schools were not optimal. We've muddled through in various ways, and because the other options have their own drawbacks.

Recent concerns have been heightened in part as a result of some testing and discussion about subject acceleration that has not gone as well as I'd like.

Anyways, as I said, I thought our schools were at level X relative to stronger alternatives, where X was a moderately negative value. Further research (including looking into the NMSF situation), leads me to estimate that, at least within the subsection of gifted and highly motivated students, relative discrepancy may be larger than I'd thought...