If you are wealthy would you send your kids to a W school over private?

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Anonymous wrote:Weirdly = worldly

The private school experience?

DP. The typing on phone experience

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No way.

Private all the way. Publics are trash. Covid totally outed the rot.

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Anonymous wrote:We are in a fortunate situation financially...never considered private schools to be justified from a Return on Investment, but they do have benefits. If money was a non-issue, would you go private or a W school?

This is like asking if you would rather fly first class or coach.

When money is not an issue - first class please.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, and we did. Did not want the private mentality, seems myopic and entitled.

I think most MCPS staff would agree if that’s what you were looking to avoid you fumbled the ball by sending them to a W school.

Not at all. Kids are in a great school and we have truly avoided the mentality that comes with being in a small, exclusive environment that makes kids immediately feel special simply because they paid for it. Lots of private school friends in the neighborhood and that’s great, but we are very happy to have gone in this direction and don’t feel we have given up anything (in fact, the more extensive class selection and great sports facilities have been a bonus).

You’re living inside the bubble too and you don’t even realize it.

Simply don’t like the private school mentality. No matter the public school, it is different and we appreciate that.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are in MCPS and it’s a mess.

We can’t afford a W neighborhood and we can’t afford private.

But I would choose private in a heartbeat if we could afford it.

Thanks for your honesty PP. I think many are in denial and although my kids attend private, I do worry about society as a whole based on the severe learning loss, absenteeism, violence, disruption, drugs and other things happening in our public schools. God help them.

Well you conveniently ignore the posters who say they are happy in MCPS with kids who are successful. You may worry about society, but appears you like more the personal validation of your decision to be in private school.

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Anonymous wrote:We are in a fortunate situation financially...never considered private schools to be justified from a Return on Investment, but they do have benefits. If money was a non-issue, would you go private or a W school?

This is like asking if you would rather fly first class or coach.

Nah, first class and coach have clear distinction which everyone can identify.

With public and private, it's not sure if coach and first class distinction is present in vast majority of situations. Some time, privates are so far behind in challenging courses that I think they can be classified as coach and many publics can be classified as first class.

Public and Private debate is not similar to first class and coach. It depends on many factors.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, and we did. Did not want the private mentality, seems myopic and entitled.

I think most MCPS staff would agree if that’s what you were looking to avoid you fumbled the ball by sending them to a W school.

Not at all. Kids are in a great school and we have truly avoided the mentality that comes with being in a small, exclusive environment that makes kids immediately feel special simply because they paid for it. Lots of private school friends in the neighborhood and that’s great, but we are very happy to have gone in this direction and don’t feel we have given up anything (in fact, the more extensive class selection and great sports facilities have been a bonus).

You’re living inside the bubble too and you don’t even realize it.

Simply don’t like the private school mentality. No matter the public school, it is different and we appreciate that.

What do you think the mentality of Potomac/Bethesda/Chevy Chase public schools are?

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Not sure what wealthy means, but net worth 20M plus and kid is in RM cluster. Yes, it's not even W schools which OP was asking, but happy with kid making friend with different socioeconomic background and not growing up in some bubble.

We have never looked at any private, but I think we can afford any private in this area even if we are not considered wealthy.

Too much is made of schools. It's not going to make much difference in life. Love for learning and being curious trumps everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:And don’t talk to me about STEM magnet programs because private school kids go to those as well. I mean non-magnet.

Very few, if any in most years. Private school kids are usually much farther behind at that point.

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Anonymous wrote:And don’t talk to me about STEM magnet programs because private school kids go to those as well. I mean non-magnet.

Very few, if any in most years. Private school kids are usually much farther behind at that point.

+1

It's harder from private to Magnet due to gap being too large. Some may still make it but it's rare.

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Anonymous wrote:And don’t talk to me about STEM magnet programs because private school kids go to those as well. I mean non-magnet.

Very few, if any in most years. Private school kids are usually much farther behind at that point.

+1

It's harder from private to Magnet due to gap being too large. Some may still make it but it's rare.

Would love proof of this. Doubt you have any.

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Anonymous wrote:And don’t talk to me about STEM magnet programs because private school kids go to those as well. I mean non-magnet.

Very few, if any in most years. Private school kids are usually much farther behind at that point.

Norwood’s matriculation this year included a kid who got into Blair magnet and a kid who got into Poolesville magnet. Both kids turned those spots down.

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Anonymous wrote:And don’t talk to me about STEM magnet programs because private school kids go to those as well. I mean non-magnet.

Very few, if any in most years. Private school kids are usually much farther behind at that point.

+1

It's harder from private to Magnet due to gap being too large. Some may still make it but it's rare.

Would love proof of this. Doubt you have any.

Not the PP, but out kid shifted from private to public. He was considered good in math in private, but good in large public were at a higher level.

The top 1% of 10M is going to be at much higher level than the top 1% of 1M. It's simple stats.

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Anonymous wrote:And don’t talk to me about STEM magnet programs because private school kids go to those as well. I mean non-magnet.

Very few, if any in most years. Private school kids are usually much farther behind at that point.

+1

It's harder from private to Magnet due to gap being too large. Some may still make it but it's rare.

It's rare because people generally don't apply.

In our tiny little Catholic school with a class of 24 students, one student applied and got into a magnet (Poolesville). The others didn't apply to magnets because they are mainly interested in private school education, in most cases specifically Catholic. Most got into the top Catholic high schools in the area, including Georgetown Prep, Stone Ridge, and Visitation.

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Do private kids take MAP math test?

It will be easier to see the levels and compare. AIM math was pretty good. I am a math enthusiasts and liked what I saw in public in AIM math in middle school. Just based on what I heard, I don't have sample data, majority of kids were in 95 to 99 percentile in MAP test in AIM math class. Now it hardly means that pubic is better. It simply means that they have a large enough population to form a class for math kids who are really good in math. Not sure you can find enough kids to offer such classes in private.