Anything you say, troll. |
What we found is it really comes down to the specific teacher vs. school. We've had great MCPS teachers, meh MCPS teachers, really bad MCPS teachers and the same in private. The math private class teacher was the worst we ever had. The school was completely unresponsive. |
It's the Intel lady... don't bother. |
Teenager... |
I don't think you have any comprehension of private schools. Like I said before, Intel lady, competitions are not a priority for small private schools (although a few do Model UN or economics competitions, and once in awhile math competitions). The day is extremely full for these kids, with 3 hours of sports required after school, then whatever arts or debate activities, etc. then hours of homework. My DS at a Big 3 usually got home at 9:30 p.m. (big into the arts) and then started his homework. Weekends had lots of sports competitions and arts performances. No time for travel to competitions. It just isn't a focus for them. But anyway, comparing "C-Span" with a school of 2500 kids vs. a school with 360 kids, yeah, there aren't going to be as many people who want to spend their time there. That is not a way to compare the quality of education and experience. Why are you so invested in this? We know your kids went to magnets, but I'm sure that they also did outside activities to help them win math competitions. I also don't think you have any comprehension of what is going on in public school classrooms right now, even in AP classrooms. I do, because I'm an AP teacher. |
We only go to W schools or TJ on DCUM or Private.
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Oh honey, it’s no different in mcps. Sometimes my kid gets home later than that with arts and sports as they do it with school and outside school. You can act like it’s different but the big differences are class size and family income. |
The difference is that it is REQUIRED for all students. That's the difference. |
Not the PP, but why is that such a big difference? If PP's child is doing those things (high level arts and sports) because they want to, why would it be better to be doing them alongside kids who are being forced to be there? |
Private school was an economic option for us. We are financially well-off. We are Asian-Americans - first gen legal immigrant. We considered it because we had low ranked public schools. However, we figured out that the quality of instruction is worse in private school, especially for STEM subjects. So, we pretty much remained in our school pyramid, my kids went to magnets, and we also enriched and accelerated them at home. So, my 2 cents is that if you are trying to go to private school to get a good education then forget it. The STEM sucks in private school. However, if you want to use the private school because of other soft skills and enviornment of privilege, go for it. As they say - YMMV. |
Public is better than private provided you're willing to put in an effort, but if you want to be spponfed and have no ambition, private may be a better option. |
True. |
I'm a PP whose kids have done a mix of public and private. Something I love about private is the kids not being on Chromebooks. They have a computer class so are learning computer literacy, but all schoolwork is done with books.
Actual papers, worksheets, projects come home in the backpack and we can look through them together. I absolutely despise all the app based / Chromebook learning in our local public. |
+1 |
You are clearly talking about elementary school. And plenty of papers/ worksheets / projects come home from public school each week. It’s like others have said it’s down to school and teacher. |