If you can afford parochial/ private, why do you stay in MCPS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For the younger grades, I really like my kids going to school with neighborhood friends and also we have so many really great and committed teachers.
For HS, I’m happy with the diversity and challenge of courses offered.
Also, I feel like private schools is part of a pattern of spoiling kids….should everything be so perfect for them? I feel like it’s okay to sometimes get a not great teacher or have badly behaved classmates.
The truth is that most our advanced students will never have a class wiith, and are very unlikely to even cross paths with, the kids that are causing the trouble like the Magruder kid.

+1. I’m a graduate of MCPS and generally a supporter of public school. We have been overall very pleased with the quality and rigor of the teachers and classes in public, particularly at our W high school. We can afford private and gave our kids the option to apply in middle school and again in high school and both had no interest. My kids are happy, comfortable navigating a larger environment without being coddled and have good friends who live close by. It’s not perfect, but we have no regrets.

You are fortunate. I had a crappy MCPS experience and it’s hot or miss for my kids. If we could afford it we’d switch our kids and not think twice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I attended private school for 12 years and sometimes it was a liability rather than a help in my college application process and beyond. The only reason I would send my kids to private is if they did not thrive in public school for some reason.

How can any kid thrive in the MCPS environment now? Anyone who says they are is lying.

Seriously WTF is wrong with you? My 15 yo cried when she got Covid, not because she was sick, but because she was going to miss so much school. She was boosted this weekend, and said she didn’t care if she had a reaction, she was going to school no matter what today because she was so excited for her first day of the new semester.
So screw you.

Just cause she wants to be there doesn't mean she is thriving. Is she getting straight A's? Cause you realize that no longer means anything.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I attended private school for 12 years and sometimes it was a liability rather than a help in my college application process and beyond. The only reason I would send my kids to private is if they did not thrive in public school for some reason.

How can any kid thrive in the MCPS environment now? Anyone who says they are is lying.

Seriously WTF is wrong with you? My 15 yo cried when she got Covid, not because she was sick, but because she was going to miss so much school. She was boosted this weekend, and said she didn’t care if she had a reaction, she was going to school no matter what today because she was so excited for her first day of the new semester.
So screw you.

Just cause she wants to be there doesn't mean she is thriving. Is she getting straight A's? Cause you realize that no longer means anything.

DP.. if you are a representative of private school parents, then I'm super glad we decided to keep our DD in public. Wow.

One could say that private school kids can't hack it in a large public, need coddling and hand holding so their parents put their special snowflakes in private. The few kids I know who went from public to private needed special attention. They were getting Cs/Ds in the public school. I mean.. that's pretty pathetic since "As" don't mean anything in public.

See how that works?

[Anonymous]

I just never saw any reason for private. My kids’ academic experience in a W district is world’s better than the education I received at the various rural schools I attended growing up, and they’ve enjoyed school and their community throughout. Older two are now in college at top 20 and top 10 schools, respectively, and there is no difference between their college readiness and success and that of the Big 3 kids they’ve met. Youngest turned down two MS magnet invites to stay with his ES peer group because he was happy with the status quo.

My folks always told us that if you come from a supportive family, work hard, and read a lot (or otherwise develop the ability to learn new things) you have all you need to be successful in life. Maybe a bit overly simplistic, but has been largely true in our experience.

[Anonymous]

We can afford private but are choosing for now to keep our kids in Whitman cluster ES and MS. They are both doing very well academically, they have good friends, and there are many options for classes and extracurriculars as they get older. Private seems more limiting socially and academically at this point.

[Anonymous]

This thread reveals the snobbery and elitism behind many peoples choices to go private. If you really can’t stand the thought of your child going to school with kids who - gasp! - end up public universities and state colleges (and then likelihood go on to launch just fine, thank you very much) then yes, go private. Of course many private school kids were in my class at UMCP but whatever floats your boat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I attended private school for 12 years and sometimes it was a liability rather than a help in my college application process and beyond. The only reason I would send my kids to private is if they did not thrive in public school for some reason.

How can any kid thrive in the MCPS environment now? Anyone who says they are is lying.

Seriously WTF is wrong with you? My 15 yo cried when she got Covid, not because she was sick, but because she was going to miss so much school. She was boosted this weekend, and said she didn’t care if she had a reaction, she was going to school no matter what today because she was so excited for her first day of the new semester.
So screw you.

Just cause she wants to be there doesn't mean she is thriving. Is she getting straight A's? Cause you realize that no longer means anything.

Just because she’s happy in school DOESN’T mean she’s thriving? That’s the exact definition of thriving.

[Anonymous]

Because it may be a disadvantage for college admissions to attend a private. https://www.solomonadmissions.com/study-public-private-students

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I attended private school for 12 years and sometimes it was a liability rather than a help in my college application process and beyond. The only reason I would send my kids to private is if they did not thrive in public school for some reason.

How can any kid thrive in the MCPS environment now? Anyone who says they are is lying.

Seriously WTF is wrong with you? My 15 yo cried when she got Covid, not because she was sick, but because she was going to miss so much school. She was boosted this weekend, and said she didn’t care if she had a reaction, she was going to school no matter what today because she was so excited for her first day of the new semester.
So screw you.

Just cause she wants to be there doesn't mean she is thriving. Is she getting straight A's? Cause you realize that no longer means anything.

Just because she’s happy in school DOESN’T mean she’s thriving? That’s the exact definition of thriving.

Some private school parents will just never believe that a happy, educationally challenged, well-adjusted, public school kid exists. They think our kids are like Bigfoot, rumored but never seen, and they employ all of these No True Scotsman fallacies to convince us the same.

If we say our kids are happy, they say our kids just aren't telling us about the gang initiation they obviously witnessed in the 3rd grade bathroom that day.

If we say our kids are challenged, they say we have low expectations.

If we say our kids are doing well in school, they say it's grade inflation.

When our kids are admitted the same colleges as theirs, they say it's pity on the part of admissions officers.

You can't win with folks like the PP, so it's better not to even try.