Does anyone send their child to private school instead WW/WJ/Churchill/Wooton?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree many parents have cause to be unhappy with their private school.

However, angry poster above is notorious for hijacking threats and sock puppeting to such a degree the DCUM mod has had to occasion to delete her posts.

It is ironic that her negative posts have prompted more positive responses about the school then probably would have otherwise been posted.

No school is a good fit for every student. Fortunately for all concerned, she seems to have realized this and is changing schools next year.

This must be the assumptive post who “knows” that only one person is unhappy and no other unhappy parents posts on here. The irony is this poster is exactly like the poster they complain about.

NP. The problem with the poster that PP identifies is that they post so prolifically that it’s hard to know if there are others with similar views. It’s naive to think there aren’t but one starts to wonder if it’s the same poster repeating their complaints. The poster does actually does a disservice to those who may want insight because it now sounds like all the complaints are coming from the same person.

NP. I agree with this. I can spot that poster from a mile away. The obsession is real.

And I don’t even live in the DC area. I only opened this thread because it kept coming up in Recent Topics and I was curious as to why. I should have guessed it was the crazy obsessed poster. Idk, I feel like that poster is not really doing DC area public school parents any favors. The private school is probably so relieved they are leaving.

You know nothing about the schools, you don’t live here, you don’t know who any poster is, you don’t know if someone is leaving a school, or if a school is happy someone is leaving. It seems to me you are the crazy obsessed poster. You are also not doing DC public school parents any favors.

Okay crazy

That made me laugh! Says the person who has no knowledge of any of it. You are crazy and obsessed to be inserting yourself on something that you know nothing about and that you have no business with. Stick to things that concern you and don’t stick your nose in things that you can’t credible talk about.
You say nothing but speculation and sound catty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree many parents have cause to be unhappy with their private school.

However, angry poster above is notorious for hijacking threats and sock puppeting to such a degree the DCUM mod has had to occasion to delete her posts.

It is ironic that her negative posts have prompted more positive responses about the school then probably would have otherwise been posted.

No school is a good fit for every student. Fortunately for all concerned, she seems to have realized this and is changing schools next year.

Wow! You say some ugly things to wish someone to leave. What school is this that parents attack in this way?

Pls point out the ugly things.

Dishearteningly tone deaf. If it has to be spelled out to you, then I truly have pity for you. Do not act this way toward other parents at your school even if you disagree, I’m sure the school would not condone how you handle yourself in your post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes we are zoned for One of these and went private.

Very poor handling of pandemic education.

Poor communication between home and school.

Hard to get on the sports teams unless you are top athlete.

Bureaucratic approaches that lack common sense.

Academics and writing more rigorous so we fell student will be better prepared for college.

We prefer private although college outcomes are probably similar or better at the public due to grade inflation.

Our DC prefers private.

Same here, all of the above reasons. Will stay and graduate from private

No snark but I would really like to know what private has better academics and more specifically writing than public here. That was touted at my child’s school and it is not better and has a reputation of a well-respected private.

This is the only area I have lived in that people actually think publcs are any good. It is shocking to me.

NP. It is a peculiarly DC area thing. I think it’s because there are so many people with government ties here. They are very invested in this belief. Even Massachusetts parents don’t sound like this.

Thank you! You provided an interesting answer. I have lived/traveled all over the US, and while the vast majority of people could never afford private-- they certainly don't brag about their public schools.

I came from an area that was known to have a good school district and people bragged about it frequently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree many parents have cause to be unhappy with their private school.

However, angry poster above is notorious for hijacking threats and sock puppeting to such a degree the DCUM mod has had to occasion to delete her posts.

It is ironic that her negative posts have prompted more positive responses about the school then probably would have otherwise been posted.

No school is a good fit for every student. Fortunately for all concerned, she seems to have realized this and is changing schools next year.

Wow! You say some ugly things to wish someone to leave. What school is this that parents attack in this way?

Pls point out the ugly things.

Dishearteningly tone deaf. If it has to be spelled out to you, then I truly have pity for you. Do not act this way toward other parents at your school even if you disagree, I’m sure the school would not condone how you handle yourself in your post.

Pls spell out the ugly parts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes we are zoned for One of these and went private.

Very poor handling of pandemic education.

Poor communication between home and school.

Hard to get on the sports teams unless you are top athlete.

Bureaucratic approaches that lack common sense.

Academics and writing more rigorous so we fell student will be better prepared for college.

We prefer private although college outcomes are probably similar or better at the public due to grade inflation.

Our DC prefers private.

Same here, all of the above reasons. Will stay and graduate from private

No snark but I would really like to know what private has better academics and more specifically writing than public here. That was touted at my child’s school and it is not better and has a reputation of a well-respected private.

This is the only area I have lived in that people actually think publcs are any good. It is shocking to me.

NP. It is a peculiarly DC area thing. I think it’s because there are so many people with government ties here. They are very invested in this belief. Even Massachusetts parents don’t sound like this.

Thank you! You provided an interesting answer. I have lived/traveled all over the US, and while the vast majority of people could never afford private-- they certainly don't brag about their public schools.

It’s definitely a little weird. The odd thing is that many DC area parents persist with this belief even in the face of educational data. The belief in the universal excellence of the public schools in the DC area is not always tethered to reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 195,000 total K-12 students in Montgomery County, MD.

33,150 of them (17%) attend private schools.

Given the relative wealth of the surrounding neighborhoods, it's a good bet that for every three kids sitting in a Whitman of Churchill classroom, there's one student at a private school.

Even 17% is a big number.

Wow, I think that percentage has really climbed up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s really hard to say academically which one is better. I posted previously and I’ll amend it. I will say Wootton offers harder classes. By far. However, the class sizes are also larger and kids fall through the cracks. My kid got some as and clearly did not know what is going on in the class. Privates are smaller classes, move slower and maybe not progress as fast, but fewer kids fall through the cracks. My private kid for example learned Algebra thoroughly whereas MCPS I felt just tries to push them through as fast as possible in math. I personally would rather move slower and really understand it. Some kids can do both. Mine couldn’t.

+ 1 Spot on with breadth Vs. depth. Most of the time my kids were in MCPS, it felt like they rushed through the curriculum. Since No Child Left Behind, it became very rote with too much testing. My naturally inquisitive kids became bored and jaded. We found a private K-8 where they quickly came to love school again. We were even able to take our child off of anxiety meds. Private schools just focus more on the kids versus bureaucracy. It’s more like public was back in the 70s and 80s in Mass, NY, and NJ, three top school systems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes we are zoned for One of these and went private.

Very poor handling of pandemic education.

Poor communication between home and school.

Hard to get on the sports teams unless you are top athlete.

Bureaucratic approaches that lack common sense.

Academics and writing more rigorous so we fell student will be better prepared for college.

We prefer private although college outcomes are probably similar or better at the public due to grade inflation.

Our DC prefers private.

Same here, all of the above reasons. Will stay and graduate from private

No snark but I would really like to know what private has better academics and more specifically writing than public here. That was touted at my child’s school and it is not better and has a reputation of a well-respected private.

This is the only area I have lived in that people actually think publcs are any good. It is shocking to me.

NP. It is a peculiarly DC area thing. I think it’s because there are so many people with government ties here. They are very invested in this belief. Even Massachusetts parents don’t sound like this.

Thank you! You provided an interesting answer. I have lived/traveled all over the US, and while the vast majority of people could never afford private-- they certainly don't brag about their public schools.

It’s definitely a little weird. The odd thing is that many DC area parents persist with this belief even in the face of educational data. The belief in the universal excellence of the public schools in the DC area is not always tethered to reality.

Neither is the belief in the universal excellence of the private schools in the DC area (or other areas)always tethered to reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes we are zoned for One of these and went private.

Very poor handling of pandemic education.

Poor communication between home and school.

Hard to get on the sports teams unless you are top athlete.

Bureaucratic approaches that lack common sense.

Academics and writing more rigorous so we fell student will be better prepared for college.

We prefer private although college outcomes are probably similar or better at the public due to grade inflation.

Our DC prefers private.

Same here, all of the above reasons. Will stay and graduate from private

No snark but I would really like to know what private has better academics and more specifically writing than public here. That was touted at my child’s school and it is not better and has a reputation of a well-respected private.

This is the only area I have lived in that people actually think publcs are any good. It is shocking to me.

NP. It is a peculiarly DC area thing. I think it’s because there are so many people with government ties here. They are very invested in this belief. Even Massachusetts parents don’t sound like this.

Thank you! You provided an interesting answer. I have lived/traveled all over the US, and while the vast majority of people could never afford private-- they certainly don't brag about their public schools.

It’s definitely a little weird. The odd thing is that many DC area parents persist with this belief even in the face of educational data. The belief in the universal excellence of the public schools in the DC area is not always tethered to reality.

Neither is the belief in the universal excellence of the private schools in the DC area (or other areas)always tethered to reality.

But nobody is saying that. What PP observed is that the DC area is a little weird in the insistence on how good the public schools are. Even in other areas of the country where there are public schools that are good, parents don’t talk the way DC parents do about the public schools. It is a little weird tbh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids - zoned for Churchill. Both in private for different reasons. The smaller classes require them to be attentive and present, which makes such a difference in their ability to actually retain information. MCPS high schools have gotten too big and way too easy to disappear into the noise. I don't have a reference point to compare Churchill academics to my kids education, but their elementary & middle school learning has far exceeded MCPS.

No being sarcastic, I’m just wondering how that could be? I send my child to a top school in DC and it’s not much better academically and actually in some ways worse than what was being taught at mcps. I cannot understand what these schools are because as I already stated my child attends a top one but people on here say they are getting better education than mcps. I am so skeptical of that. In reality, I’m paying for the smaller class size and nicer facility. Nothing more.

Sorry but the days of academic rigor at MCPS is over. The bar has been set way low due to covid. I was just talking to a Churchill mom about this tonight. She just shrugs her shoulders and accepts what it is. The private schools that stayed open are way way ahead of MCPS. Wait till you see the detail on the test scores coming out of MCPS...it is frightening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes we are zoned for One of these and went private.

Very poor handling of pandemic education.

Poor communication between home and school.

Hard to get on the sports teams unless you are top athlete.

Bureaucratic approaches that lack common sense.

Academics and writing more rigorous so we fell student will be better prepared for college.

We prefer private although college outcomes are probably similar or better at the public due to grade inflation.

Our DC prefers private.

Same here, all of the above reasons. Will stay and graduate from private

No snark but I would really like to know what private has better academics and more specifically writing than public here. That was touted at my child’s school and it is not better and has a reputation of a well-respected private.

This is the only area I have lived in that people actually think publcs are any good. It is shocking to me.

NP. It is a peculiarly DC area thing. I think it’s because there are so many people with government ties here. They are very invested in this belief. Even Massachusetts parents don’t sound like this.

Thank you! You provided an interesting answer. I have lived/traveled all over the US, and while the vast majority of people could never afford private-- they certainly don't brag about their public schools.

I came from an area that was known to have a good school district and people bragged about it frequently.

The same thing with “W” school parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes we are zoned for One of these and went private.

Very poor handling of pandemic education.

Poor communication between home and school.

Hard to get on the sports teams unless you are top athlete.

Bureaucratic approaches that lack common sense.

Academics and writing more rigorous so we fell student will be better prepared for college.

We prefer private although college outcomes are probably similar or better at the public due to grade inflation.

Our DC prefers private.

Same here, all of the above reasons. Will stay and graduate from private

No snark but I would really like to know what private has better academics and more specifically writing than public here. That was touted at my child’s school and it is not better and has a reputation of a well-respected private.

This is the only area I have lived in that people actually think publcs are any good. It is shocking to me.

NP. It is a peculiarly DC area thing. I think it’s because there are so many people with government ties here. They are very invested in this belief. Even Massachusetts parents don’t sound like this.

Thank you! You provided an interesting answer. I have lived/traveled all over the US, and while the vast majority of people could never afford private-- they certainly don't brag about their public schools.

It

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes we are zoned for One of these and went private.

Very poor handling of pandemic education.

Poor communication between home and school.

Hard to get on the sports teams unless you are top athlete.

Bureaucratic approaches that lack common sense.

Academics and writing more rigorous so we fell student will be better prepared for college.

We prefer private although college outcomes are probably similar or better at the public due to grade inflation.

Our DC prefers private.

Same here, all of the above reasons. Will stay and graduate from private

No snark but I would really like to know what private has better academics and more specifically writing than public here. That was touted at my child’s school and it is not better and has a reputation of a well-respected private.

This is the only area I have lived in that people actually think publcs are any good. It is shocking to me.

NP. It is a peculiarly DC area thing. I think it’s because there are so many people with government ties here. They are very invested in this belief. Even Massachusetts parents don’t sound like this.

Thank you! You provided an interesting answer. I have lived/traveled all over the US, and while the vast majority of people could never afford private-- they certainly don't brag about their public schools.

Maybe because the public schools here are actually good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two kids - zoned for Churchill. Both in private for different reasons. The smaller classes require them to be attentive and present, which makes such a difference in their ability to actually retain information. MCPS high schools have gotten too big and way too easy to disappear into the noise. I don't have a reference point to compare Churchill academics to my kids education, but their elementary & middle school learning has far exceeded MCPS.

No being sarcastic, I’m just wondering how that could be? I send my child to a top school in DC and it’s not much better academically and actually in some ways worse than what was being taught at mcps. I cannot understand what these schools are because as I already stated my child attends a top one but people on here say they are getting better education than mcps. I am so skeptical of that. In reality, I’m paying for the smaller class size and nicer facility. Nothing more.

Sorry but the days of academic rigor at MCPS is over. The bar has been set way low due to covid. I was just talking to a Churchill mom about this tonight. She just shrugs her shoulders and accepts what it is. The private schools that stayed open are way way ahead of MCPS. Wait till you see the detail on the test scores coming out of MCPS...it is frightening.

LOL. The private schools that stayed open still cannot compete with MCPS. They had almost 2 years to catch up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s really hard to say academically which one is better. I posted previously and I’ll amend it. I will say Wootton offers harder classes. By far. However, the class sizes are also larger and kids fall through the cracks. My kid got some as and clearly did not know what is going on in the class. Privates are smaller classes, move slower and maybe not progress as fast, but fewer kids fall through the cracks. My private kid for example learned Algebra thoroughly whereas MCPS I felt just tries to push them through as fast as possible in math. I personally would rather move slower and really understand it. Some kids can do both. Mine couldn’t.

+ 1 Spot on with breadth Vs. depth. Most of the time my kids were in MCPS, it felt like they rushed through the curriculum. Since No Child Left Behind, it became very rote with too much testing. My naturally inquisitive kids became bored and jaded. We found a private K-8 where they quickly came to love school again. We were even able to take our child off of anxiety meds. Private schools just focus more on the kids versus bureaucracy. It’s more like public was back in the 70s and 80s in Mass, NY, and NJ, three top school systems.

This is exactly right.