Washingtonian article on getting admitted to private schools (Nov 2011)

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http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/businesscareers/21451.html

[Anonymous]

Sounds lie a waste whenyou can get just as good of an education at a public school. Look at their classmates in college, how many went private vs public? If you do well, you are going to go where you want to go for college

[Anonymous]

looks like Fairfax county is dumbing down their GT Program, check out the other posts http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/199207.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds lie a waste whenyou can get just as good of an education at a public school. Look at their classmates in college, how many went private vs public? If you do well, you are going to go where you want to go for college

nice spelling did you go to public school just kidding someone had to post that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds lie a waste whenyou can get just as good of an education at a public school. Look at their classmates in college, how many went private vs public? If you do well, you are going to go where you want to go for college

Agree, unless you live in DC in any other DC ward,but Ward3 . Not sure why people who live in MOCo or FF county would choose private, unless they are an alum and want DC to go to their school or want the diversity that DC privates offer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds lie a waste whenyou can get just as good of an education at a public school. Look at their classmates in college, how many went private vs public? If you do well, you are going to go where you want to go for college

Agree, unless you live in DC in any other DC ward,but Ward3 . Not sure why people who live in MOCo or FF county would choose private, unless they are an alum and want DC to go to their school or want the diversity that DC privates offer.[/quote]

Is this a joke????? My kids are in FCPS. THeir classes are very diverse (all different races and ethnicities -- as well as socio-economic diversity). From what I saw of the DC privates in looking around, they are not really diverse.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds lie a waste whenyou can get just as good of an education at a public school. Look at their classmates in college, how many went private vs public? If you do well, you are going to go where you want to go for college

Agree, unless you live in DC in any other DC ward,but Ward3 . Not sure why people who live in MOCo or FF county would choose private, unless they are an alum and want DC to go to their school or want the diversity that DC privates offer.[/quote]

Is this a joke????? My kids are in FCPS. THeir classes are very diverse (all different races and ethnicities -- as well as socio-economic diversity). From what I saw of the DC privates in looking around, they are not really diverse.

Not OP, but I don't think this is a joke. I would ask you how diverse are your kids' friends and how many of these different races and ethnicities and socio-economic groups do your kids count among their friends who are invited to parties and social gatherings? Based on my experience, even though the public schools tend to be more diverse, they don't appear to be more integrated. So the kids break down largely along racial lines and there appears to be very little interaction among the diverse groups of kids (even notice this at my bus stop in the morning in my very diverse neighborhood and school district). My kids on the other hand have meaningful friendships with a very diverse group of kids from their respective privates.

[Anonymous]

Some schools in top publics are not very diverse. There are several schools in my county where my kids private schools (not all that diverse) are more diverse than some of the publics. There are some schools with very few blacks and hispanics and some schools with very few blacks, hispanics and Asians.

[Anonymous]

Private schools are more about the self-assurance and social connections that many grads have, not the average SAT scores. I can see from my friends who went to private schools that there is a difference.

[Anonymous]

``Private schools are more about the self-assurance and social connections that many grads have, not the average SAT scores. I can see from my friends who went to private schools that there is a difference. ''

Wrong. It's about being more successful in college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools in top publics are not very diverse. There are several schools in my county where my kids private schools (not all that diverse) are more diverse than some of the publics. There are some schools with very few blacks and hispanics and some schools with very few blacks, hispanics and Asians.

I see this a lot from private school parents who don't have kids in public schools. It's wrong. It's especially wrong when you consider economic diversity.

[Anonymous]

Lovely home purchased long before children arrived, but our MoCo public school - for which we pay taxes - is lily white. Why would I want to enroll my black child there?

[Anonymous]

I agree PP. Our MoCo elementary has about 400 kids, of which less than 15 are black.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lovely home purchased long before children arrived, but our MoCo public school - for which we pay taxes - is lily white. Why would I want to enroll my black child there?

Are any of the teachers or the school leaders black? That wouLd be more important to me. If there are, I say go for it. If not, push the school to make changes. That is not a healthy situatiOn in the dc metro area.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree PP. Our MoCo elementary has about 400 kids, of which less than 15 are black.

EXACTLY. MY DD's DC private has about 35 % of student pop "of color", may of whom are bi-racial or multi-racial and international familes. The curriculum challenges the kids to dialogue about race, discrimination, community , etc... It is one of the great benefits of living in Washington with a highly educated diverse population. And there is economic diversity as well because the AD has to balance the FA budget. There has to be a mix or FA wouldn't work. I don't think the publics can engineer that kind of socio-economic and racial diversity even with district jerrymandering ( sp), which is illegal.