With distance learning parents see the subpar education of public schools demand better

[Anonymous]

There need to be remedial schools/classes and regular classes. Lumping kids with a wide variety of needs together has been the beginning of the end. Maybe there was less variety 2 decades ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally agree, but I’m not sure vouchers are the solution. There will still be a big supply-side problem for a long time, and individual vouchers may not increase the supply of good private schools. What I am MUCH more in favor of now is direct aid to parochial schools and a more robust charter sector where proven success leads to expansion.

F that. We, the taxpayers, are not paying for your private schools. Especially religious schools.

Fine, but the taxpayers are obligated by law to provide a FAPE to all public school students and ACPS, for instance, fails to do this in person or virtually (as implied by the OP, this is hidden by the smart neurotypical who still thrive despite all the deficiencies and have support through tutoring, etc from well off parents). School systems like ACPS (and its administrative leaders like Hutchings) need to be held accountable.

So improve public schools then. Don’t drain them of resources.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

Even parochial is 10-15k a year per kid. Times 2 or 3 kids, that’s just not workable for many people.

So push to raise taxes to properly fund schools. It’d be a fraction of $45k/yr.

Nah. If they raise taxes for schools they will give all the extra money to sped and ELL.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

Even parochial is 10-15k a year per kid. Times 2 or 3 kids, that’s just not workable for many people.

So push to raise taxes to properly fund schools. It’d be a fraction of $45k/yr.

Nah. If they raise taxes for schools they will give all the extra money to sped and ELL.

Ok. And?

So much for advocating for EL and low SES families...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

You could afford it if you didn't overpay for your house. Choices, choices.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

Even parochial is 10-15k a year per kid. Times 2 or 3 kids, that’s just not workable for many people.

So push to raise taxes to properly fund schools. It’d be a fraction of $45k/yr.

Nah. If they raise taxes for schools they will give all the extra money to sped and ELL.

Ok. And?

So much for advocating for EL and low SES families...

Right. If SPED and ELL is improved, that should also free up time for teachers to provide better instruction to non ELL neuro-typical students. I think that would be a good thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

You could afford it if you didn't overpay for your house. Choices, choices.

DP but no matter where I live in the DC area I don’t have 80k extra to send 2 kids to private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

You could afford it if you didn't overpay for your house. Choices, choices.

DP but no matter where I live in the DC area I don’t have 80k extra to send 2 kids to private school.

An extra $2-5k in property tax doesn’t seem so bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally agree, but I’m not sure vouchers are the solution. There will still be a big supply-side problem for a long time, and individual vouchers may not increase the supply of good private schools. What I am MUCH more in favor of now is direct aid to parochial schools and a more robust charter sector where proven success leads to expansion.

F that. We, the taxpayers, are not paying for your private schools. Especially religious schools.

+1000.

[Anonymous]

Vouchers would not drain public schools if done properly. Average kid $10,000 voucher. ESL $20,000 Voucher. SpEd $20,000-40,000 voucher depending on need. Thus private schools have incentive to accept some esl and SpEd kids and public schools will be well funded if they end up with mostly esl and Spec. Ed. There should be no requirements attached to the vouchers unless a family chooses to homeschool. Everyone wins.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

Even parochial is 10-15k a year per kid. Times 2 or 3 kids, that’s just not workable for many people.

So push to raise taxes to properly fund schools. It’d be a fraction of $45k/yr.

Nah. If they raise taxes for schools they will give all the extra money to sped and ELL.

Ok. And?

So much for advocating for EL and low SES families...

Right. If SPED and ELL is improved, that should also free up time for teachers to provide better instruction to non ELL neuro-typical students. I think that would be a good thing.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vouchers would not drain public schools if done properly. Average kid $10,000 voucher. ESL $20,000 Voucher. SpEd $20,000-40,000 voucher depending on need. Thus private schools have incentive to accept some esl and SpEd kids and public schools will be well funded if they end up with mostly esl and Spec. Ed. There should be no requirements attached to the vouchers unless a family chooses to homeschool. Everyone wins.

By definition, vouchers drain the system. No way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

+1.
I'd 'enroll my kid into Georgetown Day tomorrow. Can anyone on here spare half a mil? Come on, it's peanuts for all of you.

Good luck getting in even if you had the $$. Private school spots are 10 applications to 1 spot right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Vouchers would not drain public schools if done properly. Average kid $10,000 voucher. ESL $20,000 Voucher. SpEd $20,000-40,000 voucher depending on need. Thus private schools have incentive to accept some esl and SpEd kids and public schools will be well funded if they end up with mostly esl and Spec. Ed. There should be no requirements attached to the vouchers unless a family chooses to homeschool. Everyone wins.

By definition, vouchers drain the system. No way.

No. Public schools would get the voucher money of the kids that attend. The system will be improved for all because there is competition. More private schools could open resulting in smaller classes across the board. Everyone wins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are smart, you would've never enrolled your kids in public school in the first place. You could spend years and years advocating for your kids and they would still get the same crappy education or you could put your money where your mouth is and enroll in a private school.

We can't all afford private schools and we're not okay with sending our kids to a parochial school that is against our religious beliefs.

+1.
I'd 'enroll my kid into Georgetown Day tomorrow. Can anyone on here spare half a mil? Come on, it's peanuts for all of you.

Head over to the private school forum and read the threads of parents complaining about how crappy their $45k experiences are at GDS and Sidwell are this year.