So would you still say the public school was just fine?

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Anonymous wrote:You are missing all the kids who graduate from from public school and go to college and do great with no transition issues at all.

Do you actually read it? I'm talking about MY local public school, and not every other public school in America!

Your post is really long, but you don't bother to mention the school system and you don't mention the school.

So, yes, feel free to send your own children to private school, but recognize that there are many graduates of local public school system who continue to excel at many colleges and universities. My freshman has already been told that he can graduate in three years if he chooses, based on his AP scores, placement tests, and first semester performance.

Yes of course there are many graduates of local public schools who continue to excel at many colleges and universities -- I am one of them. I am only speaking about the school my children would have to go to which is not the school I went to.

Then really, what is the point of your post? Two anecdotes about two specific kids at one specific school that an anonymous stranger is not choosing for your kids. Ok.

I didn't know there was a post length requirement. Perhaps I didn't learn proper editing in that just fine public school I went to.

True. Also op your opening post is WAAAY too long. I thin you're the "long poster" and I wish you'd learn to edit yourself. So boring otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:It still sounds like you just have two anecdotes. Do more research. Look at average SAT scores, AP scores. Consider whether, even in this worst case, taking a few remedial classes is worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars you'd save over private school.

Wow, so the money is more important than making sure my children are well prepared? A few remedial class is NOT a good thing.

Yes, of course amounts of money matter. Would you pay $1 million to make sure your children were ideally prepared? What about $5 million? What if you could not guarantee they would be ideally prepared at any price and it was always a risk that they may suffer some stumbling blocks wherever they go? You do need to consider realities of cost. You say you can't afford to move. How the heck could you afford private school?

Grandparents who are happy to pay for private school, but aren't motivated to help us move. Dont ask me why. It's their money and I don't get to dictate how they spend it.

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Anonymous wrote:some kids can fall through the cracks. sounds like these two may have done just that.

choose private if it is best for your family; but it is really not in your interest or attractive to other people to slam public schools.

People need to get out of their feelings. Unless they are the one designing the public school curriculum its not a personal jab. All of you pro public school people at any cost are beyond ridiculous. To be clear I am a public school grad and my kids go to public school. However, I dont get my panties in a bunch when people say they dont think public schools are good -- that's their opinion and they are entitled to it.

Whatever. OP could have written the same really long post, substituted "private" for "public," and it would still make as much or as little sense. No school guarantees the success of its graduates.

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Anonymous wrote:some kids can fall through the cracks. sounds like these two may have done just that.

choose private if it is best for your family; but it is really not in your interest or attractive to other people to slam public schools.

People need to get out of their feelings. Unless they are the one designing the public school curriculum its not a personal jab. All of you pro public school people at any cost are beyond ridiculous. To be clear I am a public school grad and my kids go to public school. However, I dont get my panties in a bunch when people say they dont think public schools are good -- that's their opinion and they are entitled to it.

Whatever. OP could have written the same really long post, substituted "private" for "public," and it would still make as much or as little sense. No school guarantees the success of its graduates.

I didn't read OP's post to suggest he/she was looking for a school that would guarantee the success of its graduate, but would guarentee his/her child would be prepared for college. I think that's a reasonable expectation.

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Like another poster said... Do more research about the school so as to get a wider perspective that is not just limited to 2 situations. That being said I live in an area that has what is considered the top high school in the county (Not MoCo) the school is a 10 on greatschools.org however I will not send my DC there and will be opting for private. 'Just fine' is relative. It all depends on what is important to you and what you want for your child.
The bottom line is private is better for my DC and that does not mean 'private is better'!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:some kids can fall through the cracks. sounds like these two may have done just that.

choose private if it is best for your family; but it is really not in your interest or attractive to other people to slam public schools.

People need to get out of their feelings. Unless they are the one designing the public school curriculum its not a personal jab. All of you pro public school people at any cost are beyond ridiculous. To be clear I am a public school grad and my kids go to public school. However, I dont get my panties in a bunch when people say they dont think public schools are good -- that's their opinion and they are entitled to it.

Whatever. OP could have written the same really long post, substituted "private" for "public," and it would still make as much or as little sense. No school guarantees the success of its graduates.

I didn't read OP's post to suggest he/she was looking for a school that would guarantee the success of its graduate, but would guarentee his/her child would be prepared for college. I think that's a reasonable expectation.

Duh. No private school guarantees the success of every student for college, either.

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Anonymous wrote:some kids can fall through the cracks. sounds like these two may have done just that.

choose private if it is best for your family; but it is really not in your interest or attractive to other people to slam public schools.

People need to get out of their feelings. Unless they are the one designing the public school curriculum its not a personal jab. All of you pro public school people at any cost are beyond ridiculous. To be clear I am a public school grad and my kids go to public school. However, I dont get my panties in a bunch when people say they dont think public schools are good -- that's their opinion and they are entitled to it.

Whatever. OP could have written the same really long post, substituted "private" for "public," and it would still make as much or as little sense. No school guarantees the success of its graduates.

I didn't read OP's post to suggest he/she was looking for a school that would guarantee the success of its graduate, but would guarentee his/her child would be prepared for college. I think that's a reasonable expectation.

Duh. No private school guarantees the success of every student for college, either.

Again, I didn't read anything in the original post that said anything about success. The OP said the two students where not prepared for college. I think you are jumping the gun and assuming the OP thinks private school would guarantee success. The student who took the remedial classes may very well be successful when it's all said and done.

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Anonymous wrote:Like another poster said... Do more research about the school so as to get a wider perspective that is not just limited to 2 situations. That being said I live in an area that has what is considered the top high school in the county (Not MoCo) the school is a 10 on greatschools.org however I will not send my DC there and will be opting for private. 'Just fine' is relative. It all depends on what is important to you and what you want for your child.
The bottom line is private is better for my DC and that does not mean 'private is better'!

I will. Both of the students I spoke about did average on the SAT/ACT. However, I am one those people that don't believe how a child does on a SAT/ACT is a true determining factor of their readiness for college. I also dont think either of the two students took an AP courses. The last time I looked at the school's website there was minimal offerings of AP courses. The school seems to be more focused on specialized trade programs (i.e., preparing students for jobs and not so much for college). I'm passign no judgement on that, but that isn't what I have in mind for my children.

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Ug. so Boring - MAKE. IT. STOP !

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Anonymous wrote:You are missing all the kids who graduate from from public school and go to college and do great with no transition issues at all.

Do you actually read it? I'm talking about MY local public school, and not every other public school in America!

Your post is really long, but you don't bother to mention the school system and you don't mention the school.

So, yes, feel free to send your own children to private school, but recognize that there are many graduates of local public school system who continue to excel at many colleges and universities. My freshman has already been told that he can graduate in three years if he chooses, based on his AP scores, placement tests, and first semester performance.

Yes of course there are many graduates of local public schools who continue to excel at many colleges and universities -- I am one of them. I am only speaking about the school my children would have to go to which is not the school I went to.

Then really, what is the point of your post? Two anecdotes about two specific kids at one specific school that an anonymous stranger is not choosing for your kids. Ok.

My point is how can one still argue THAT specific school is just fine when there are two examples that suggest otherwise.

I don't know. A lot facts are missing. Did they get their high honors in AP classes or below grade level classes, for example? Were they receiving accommodations in high school that they didn't get in college? Were they cheating in high school and couldn't fudge it in college? Etc., etc. etc.

While the argument seems compelling, it might also be an anecdotal fallacy or fallacy of composition or any number of logical fallacies. Then again, additional facts could show that the very best that school can produce is not good enough for college, but good enough for whatever some other of its students hope to achieve.

But I don't think you need to second guess your personal choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Ug. so Boring - MAKE. IT. STOP !

THEN. GO. AWAY. NO. ONE. IS. MAKING. YOU. READ. IDIOT!!!

[Anonymous]

After hearing this I decided there was no way I would be sending my children to public school as long as we lived in this county. We explored moving but the market sucks and for now it's not a real option. Am I crazy to be completely disgusted with the public schools? I've been told - even after sharing this two recent examples - I'm overreacting and the schools are just fine and most kids who graduate from these schools do fine and get accepted into colleges. Needless to say I am beginning to question what people think "just fine" is. I think is irresponsible to knowingly send kids to college unprepared and I refuse to put my children through that. What am I missing? How could the local school possibly be "just fine?"

You have decided that there is "no way" you would be sending your kids there. So what does I matter if someone else thinks it is just fine? it has nothing to do with you.

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After hearing this I decided there was no way I would be sending my children to public school as long as we lived in this county. We explored moving but the market sucks and for now it's not a real option. Am I crazy to be completely disgusted with the public schools? I've been told - even after sharing this two recent examples - I'm overreacting and the schools are just fine and most kids who graduate from these schools do fine and get accepted into colleges. Needless to say I am beginning to question what people think "just fine" is. I think is irresponsible to knowingly send kids to college unprepared and I refuse to put my children through that. What am I missing? How could the local school possibly be "just fine?"

You have decided that there is "no way" you would be sending your kids there. So what does I matter if someone else thinks it is just fine? it has nothing to do with you.

It's called discussing a issue.

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After hearing this I decided there was no way I would be sending my children to public school as long as we lived in this county. We explored moving but the market sucks and for now it's not a real option. Am I crazy to be completely disgusted with the public schools? I've been told - even after sharing this two recent examples - I'm overreacting and the schools are just fine and most kids who graduate from these schools do fine and get accepted into colleges. Needless to say I am beginning to question what people think "just fine" is. I think is irresponsible to knowingly send kids to college unprepared and I refuse to put my children through that. What am I missing? How could the local school possibly be "just fine?"

You have decided that there is "no way" you would be sending your kids there. So what does I matter if someone else thinks it is just fine? it has nothing to do with you.

It's called discussing a issue.

Yeah, I can this post about an unidentified school in an unspecified county generating lots of productive discussion.

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After hearing this I decided there was no way I would be sending my children to public school as long as we lived in this county. We explored moving but the market sucks and for now it's not a real option. Am I crazy to be completely disgusted with the public schools? I've been told - even after sharing this two recent examples - I'm overreacting and the schools are just fine and most kids who graduate from these schools do fine and get accepted into colleges. Needless to say I am beginning to question what people think "just fine" is. I think is irresponsible to knowingly send kids to college unprepared and I refuse to put my children through that. What am I missing? How could the local school possibly be "just fine?"

You have decided that there is "no way" you would be sending your kids there. So what does I matter if someone else thinks it is just fine? it has nothing to do with you.

It's called discussing a issue.

Yeah, I can this post about an unidentified school in an unspecified county generating lots of productive discussion.

It has, but if you don't find it "productive" then excuse yourself. Most of the frigging post on DCUM are NOT of the productive nature.