What is even the point of private schools?

[Anonymous]

This again

We do private for the small class sizes ( 13-16) and the lack of violence. DD is in MS and doing well. My goal is not for her to get into a top Ivy it’s to enjoy learning and get an education. My friends son at a mcps MS had witnessed 3 fights already and they’ve only at school for 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left DCPS for top privates in 9th grade because my kids could barely write a basic essay.
Also, I have personally known many DCPS grads who struggled in college. Sure, on DCUM somebody's uncle's cousin's friend left JR and aced his classes at Harvard but in my real-life world, among people I know and trust, (relatives, close friends, etc) there are many grads who struggled. So the point of private school for us is far, far better instruction.

Oof...can we answer the question without having to deride other schools. I know plenty of public and private kids that have struggled at college...have close friends' kids from private school that either deferred or had to take leave at Top 10 schools due to psychological issues (which was impacting grades for the one taking leave...but not saying they couldn't do the work, just that their problems were preventing them from fully functioning). I don't then spew here that many private school kids have horrible psychological problems.

Public school kids that take many AP classes and score well on the tests and have high SAT scores do just fine and many thrive in college. Yes, in my real life world too.

You gave it a try, PP. But the poster you are responding to lives for threads where they can talk about how they saved their kids from public school and got them into “top” privates. They were as tiresome at their previous schools as they are now. But their kids will all graduate and then perhaps they will move on.

[Anonymous]

Check out the tread on chair throwers. That's why we're at a private. Our public had some very smart kids, some kids who were very far behind and a handful of behavioral problems. It was just to much and my kid was lost in the middle of it all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private schools reduce the likelihood your kid will be in a classroom with a chair thrower and you won’t have to ask on DCUM if the police should get involved.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left DCPS for top privates in 9th grade because my kids could barely write a basic essay.
Also, I have personally known many DCPS grads who struggled in college. Sure, on DCUM somebody's uncle's cousin's friend left JR and aced his classes at Harvard but in my real-life world, among people I know and trust, (relatives, close friends, etc) there are many grads who struggled. So the point of private school for us is far, far better instruction.

Oof...can we answer the question without having to deride other schools. I know plenty of public and private kids that have struggled at college...have close friends' kids from private school that either deferred or had to take leave at Top 10 schools due to psychological issues (which was impacting grades for the one taking leave...but not saying they couldn't do the work, just that their problems were preventing them from fully functioning). I don't then spew here that many private school kids have horrible psychological problems.

Public school kids that take many AP classes and score well on the tests and have high SAT scores do just fine and many thrive in college. Yes, in my real life world too.

You gave it a try, PP. But the poster you are responding to lives for threads where they can talk about how they saved their kids from public school and got them into “top” privates. They were as tiresome at their previous schools as they are now. But their kids will all graduate and then perhaps they will move on.

I agree there is no need to deride other kids in DCPS, plus it isn’t accurate. But by the same token, it’s not reasonable to dismiss that some of our kids have had horrifying experiences in the public schools. I do not care about university admissions. But I do care that my child go to a school where kids aren’t overdosing in the bathrooms, or where kids aren’t caught with guns and knives on campus. I want my kid to be assigned reading that isn’t a short except from a book, rather than the whole book. My eldest kid got though his public middle school having never written essays that were longer than a single page, with straight As. And that’s not even touching the fights, violence, and drugs.

[Anonymous]

Why do you assume they are not indoctrinated with Marxist propaganda at public school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left DCPS for top privates in 9th grade because my kids could barely write a basic essay.
Also, I have personally known many DCPS grads who struggled in college. Sure, on DCUM somebody's uncle's cousin's friend left JR and aced his classes at Harvard but in my real-life world, among people I know and trust, (relatives, close friends, etc) there are many grads who struggled. So the point of private school for us is far, far better instruction.

Oof...can we answer the question without having to deride other schools. I know plenty of public and private kids that have struggled at college...have close friends' kids from private school that either deferred or had to take leave at Top 10 schools due to psychological issues (which was impacting grades for the one taking leave...but not saying they couldn't do the work, just that their problems were preventing them from fully functioning). I don't then spew here that many private school kids have horrible psychological problems.

Public school kids that take many AP classes and score well on the tests and have high SAT scores do just fine and many thrive in college. Yes, in my real life world too.

You gave it a try, PP. But the poster you are responding to lives for threads where they can talk about how they saved their kids from public school and got them into “top” privates. They were as tiresome at their previous schools as they are now. But their kids will all graduate and then perhaps they will move on.

I agree there is no need to deride other kids in DCPS, plus it isn’t accurate. But by the same token, it’s not reasonable to dismiss that some of our kids have had horrifying experiences in the public schools. I do not care about university admissions. But I do care that my child go to a school where kids aren’t overdosing in the bathrooms, or where kids aren’t caught with guns and knives on campus. I want my kid to be assigned reading that isn’t a short except from a book, rather than the whole book. My eldest kid got though his public middle school having never written essays that were longer than a single page, with straight As. And that’s not even touching the fights, violence, and drugs.

I'm the poster you're replying to. IT IS ACCURATE. I'm sharing my kids' life experience. Did you live my kids' experience? Are you me or my children?

I shared that DCPS did not teach my children to write. They got high As and yet they couldn't write their ways out of a paper bag.
This was our experience and we are 1000% allowed to share it here or where ever we want. When you spend 10 years in DCPS you can share about your experience there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

Sorry your kid didn't get into any of the magnets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you assume they are not indoctrinated with Marxist propaganda at public school?

You guys are really terrified your kids are going to read Marx, aren't you? Why is your side always so terrified of learning and ideas? Why do you always assume your kids are too stupid to critically assess what they read. It's so demeaning to your kids that you think they are so susceptible to "indoctrination."

You do know that if your kid goes to a half-way decent college at some point someone is going to talk to them about books like Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto that have dramatically influenced modern geo-political relations and all of modern world history and that every culturally literate person has read or at least learned about. Maybe at that point they will be able to teach you how ridiculously you are misusing the term "Marxist." I hope so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s to be treated like a client. This board is littered with examples of why the family experience even in top publics sucks.

We were never treated like clients at private school and we didn't expect to be either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left DCPS for top privates in 9th grade because my kids could barely write a basic essay.
Also, I have personally known many DCPS grads who struggled in college. Sure, on DCUM somebody's uncle's cousin's friend left JR and aced his classes at Harvard but in my real-life world, among people I know and trust, (relatives, close friends, etc) there are many grads who struggled. So the point of private school for us is far, far better instruction.

Oof...can we answer the question without having to deride other schools. I know plenty of public and private kids that have struggled at college...have close friends' kids from private school that either deferred or had to take leave at Top 10 schools due to psychological issues (which was impacting grades for the one taking leave...but not saying they couldn't do the work, just that their problems were preventing them from fully functioning). I don't then spew here that many private school kids have horrible psychological problems.

Public school kids that take many AP classes and score well on the tests and have high SAT scores do just fine and many thrive in college. Yes, in my real life world too.

You gave it a try, PP. But the poster you are responding to lives for threads where they can talk about how they saved their kids from public school and got them into “top” privates. They were as tiresome at their previous schools as they are now. But their kids will all graduate and then perhaps they will move on.

I agree there is no need to deride other kids in DCPS, plus it isn’t accurate. But by the same token, it’s not reasonable to dismiss that some of our kids have had horrifying experiences in the public schools. I do not care about university admissions. But I do care that my child go to a school where kids aren’t overdosing in the bathrooms, or where kids aren’t caught with guns and knives on campus. I want my kid to be assigned reading that isn’t a short except from a book, rather than the whole book. My eldest kid got though his public middle school having never written essays that were longer than a single page, with straight As. And that’s not even touching the fights, violence, and drugs.

I'm the poster you're replying to. IT IS ACCURATE. I'm sharing my kids' life experience. Did you live my kids' experience? Are you me or my children?

I shared that DCPS did not teach my children to write. They got high As and yet they couldn't write their ways out of a paper bag.
This was our experience and we are 1000% allowed to share it here or where ever we want. When you spend 10 years in DCPS you can share about your experience there.

No, I mean you can’t speak conclusively about what other kids learned or their experiences. I believe you with respect to your own child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

Sorry your kid didn't get into any of the magnets.

What are magnets? Our kids have been in private school since age 4 and we haven't ever considered a public option.

[Anonymous]

I love seeing these ridiculous threads in the private school forum on whether private schools should exist at all. It's not a valid question for private school families who have already made that choice.

Next up I'm going to the soccer forum to ask whether anyone should ever play soccer, and the trying to conceive forum to ask why everyone shouldn't just remain childless...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s to be treated like a client. This board is littered with examples of why the family experience even in top publics sucks.

We were never treated like clients at private school and we didn't expect to be either.

Weird. Parochial, I have to assume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love seeing these ridiculous threads in the private school forum on whether private schools should exist at all. It's not a valid question for private school families who have already made that choice.

Next up I'm going to the soccer forum to ask whether anyone should ever play soccer, and the trying to conceive forum to ask why everyone shouldn't just remain childless...

The weirdest ones are replies by people who no longer have school-aged children, like Retired Biglaw Partner who loves to dump on private schools and parents who use them.

But, on the other hand, this would be a very quiet subsection of DCUM if it weren't for the haters creating and bumping threads.