3 reasons why the private schools are filled - from an incoming private parent...

[Anonymous]

1. you have tons of money and looking for prestige.
2. you love dc living and don't want to move from your cool neighborhood to jklm so are either getting some financial aid or working your butts off to make it work.
3. you are scared to trust the public school system because of a story you heard from a friend of a friend.

-- things you won't get out of privates

1. dc public schools are more rigorous curriculum wise and in many cases more innovative- this is why whenever a private kid has to go into public for various reasons ($$ being the primary) - they are behind in math.
2. colleges love some of dcps including wilson and have as good as a track record for ivies as most privates including big 3s
3. real life experience in a diverse atmosphere

[Anonymous]

Blah blah blah

[Anonymous]

Cool story

[Anonymous]

Delusional post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. you have tons of money and looking for prestige.
2. you love dc living and don't want to move from your cool neighborhood to jklm so are either getting some financial aid or working your butts off to make it work.
3. you are scared to trust the public school system because of a story you heard from a friend of a friend.

-- things you won't get out of privates

1. dc public schools are more rigorous curriculum wise and in many cases more innovative- this is why whenever a private kid has to go into public for various reasons ($$ being the primary) - they are behind in math.
2. colleges love some of dcps including wilson and have as good as a track record for ivies as most privates including big 3s
3. real life experience in a diverse atmosphere

Seriously? I'm a product of public school education, including a state university, and proud of it, but get over yourself. My kids are in private for reasons that are pointless to explain to you. You have such a huge inferiority chip on your shoulder,you are embarrassing yourself. I hope your kids don't pick up on your tremendous insecurities. It will not serve them well.

[Anonymous]

The privates aren't filled, so non sequiter.

[Anonymous]

The good privates are filled, but other than that, you don't seem to know what you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Funny my child entered private in 6th and was so far behind on writing, oral presentations, vocabulary, grammar, science and history. And even though she was on target with math (2yrs accelerated in public) she had many "ah ha" moments of actually understanding it.

[Anonymous]

Funny, I had a friend tell me that he should never have sent his DC to private and just sent to the local public. Friend had one in public and one in private. Friend found DC in public was getting a better education than the DC in private.

I think it must depend on the private/public school. I don't think ALL privates are that great, and some public schools are probably better than most of the private ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny, I had a friend tell me that he should never have sent his DC to private and just sent to the local public. Friend had one in public and one in private. Friend found DC in public was getting a better education than the DC in private.

I think it must depend on the private/public school. I don't think ALL privates are that great, and some public schools are probably better than most of the private ones.

It also depends on the child, right?

This is often what people overlook in their judgement of others in the public v private wars. Just because a family chooses one or the other for their child doesn't mean they believer the forgone choice is inferior, just that it wasn't right for their child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, I had a friend tell me that he should never have sent his DC to private and just sent to the local public. Friend had one in public and one in private. Friend found DC in public was getting a better education than the DC in private.

I think it must depend on the private/public school. I don't think ALL privates are that great, and some public schools are probably better than most of the private ones.

It also depends on the child, right?

This is often what people overlook in their judgement of others in the public v private wars. Just because a family chooses one or the other for their child doesn't mean they believer the forgone choice is inferior, just that it wasn't right for their child.

PP here. Well, in this case, the child had some learning issues, so the parents thought private would be better, but it didn't turn out that way.

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone thing that all privates are created equal? Or publics, for that matter? It depends on the particular teacher and the particular student, etc...

Sigh. Can we get past the stereotypes please?

[Anonymous]

This is lame. Go away OP

[Anonymous]

Three reasons why someone might start a thread this way:

1) You are largely ignorant of the diverse factors that might lead to a family choosing private school, and are unconcerned about revealing that ignorance;
2) You are prone to generalizing based on an insufficient number of data points reflecting your own limited personal experience;
3) You realize that speaking this way in front of people you know would antagonize and offend them, and so turn to a venue where you can irritate people from behind the cloak of anonymity.