Would you switch a happy thriving kid from public?

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rip him away from his friends. That's cruel.

Or is it cruel to leave him in his current school?

Why would it be cruel to leave a child where they are happy and doing well?

Doing well by what measures? The standards at public school?

You do realize that a lot of people (including in my extended family) send their kid to private because they couldn’t hack it according to public school standards? A relative of mine was going to have to repeat a grade in public, but was then was welcomed with open arms by a private school. Of course there are extremely rigorous private schools. I’m just saying that it’s an absurdly broad brush to say all private schools have higher standards than public schools, or vice versa. It all depends on the individual school.

Unless it is a magnet public school that kids test into, the standards at public are going to be low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an elementary child who is perfectly happy and content at the local public. He has a lot of friends, is doing well in school and seems to be getting everything he needs from the local school. He attended a preschool that is a private school feeder so most of his former preschool classmates are attending various private schools in the DMV. We can easily afford private school. I can’t help but feel we are somehow hurting our child by sending him to public by not providing the best education we can give to him. He is the type of kid who would do well anywhere. He was very well liked in preschool and had is also well liked now in public. Our preschool had children of famous parents.

Nearly every kid is “thriving” until age 15 or 16 when they bomb APs and ACT/SAT and you realize all of their As and Bs have been fake. And maybe they’ve fallen in with underachieving loser friends who have far more sway than you ever will. Of course by then it’s way too late to do anything about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rip him away from his friends. That's cruel.

Or is it cruel to leave him in his current school?

Why would it be cruel to leave a child where they are happy and doing well?

“Doing well” You public parents refresh this forum all day, every day.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rip him away from his friends. That's cruel.

Or is it cruel to leave him in his current school?

Why would it be cruel to leave a child where they are happy and doing well?

Doing well by what measures? The standards at public school?

You do realize that a lot of people (including in my extended family) send their kid to private because they couldn’t hack it according to public school standards? A relative of mine was going to have to repeat a grade in public, but was then was welcomed with open arms by a private school. Of course there are extremely rigorous private schools. I’m just saying that it’s an absurdly broad brush to say all private schools have higher standards than public schools, or vice versa. It all depends on the individual school.

Unless it is a magnet public school that kids test into, the standards at public are going to be low.

Maybe at some public schools, yes. But borne of my personal experience, some private schools have even lower standards than certain public schools. As I said, it all depends on the school. Comparisons between specific schools are possible, but broad comparisons of simply “public vs. private” don’t yield useful info.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rip him away from his friends. That's cruel.

Or is it cruel to leave him in his current school?

Why would it be cruel to leave a child where they are happy and doing well?

Doing well by what measures? The standards at public school?

You do realize that a lot of people (including in my extended family) send their kid to private because they couldn’t hack it according to public school standards? A relative of mine was going to have to repeat a grade in public, but was then was welcomed with open arms by a private school. Of course there are extremely rigorous private schools. I’m just saying that it’s an absurdly broad brush to say all private schools have higher standards than public schools, or vice versa. It all depends on the individual school.

Unless it is a magnet public school that kids test into, the standards at public are going to be low.

Maybe at some public schools, yes. But borne of my personal experience, some private schools have even lower standards than certain public schools. As I said, it all depends on the school. Comparisons between specific schools are possible, but broad comparisons of simply “public vs. private” don’t yield useful info.

At every non-magnet public school.

[Anonymous]

What kind of nuts automatically believe that private schools are better for their kids than public? There are so many factors and priorities to consider. It's so much more complex than that. If your child has a learning disability, it makes sense to focus on private. If you want your child to go to school with wealthy, connected people, that can happy at public school. Or even in college. There are many non-magnet public school children that attend highly competitive colleges. There are many non-magnet public school children (and non private school children) who have high paying careers.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of nuts automatically believe that private schools are better for their kids than public? There are so many factors and priorities to consider. It's so much more complex than that. If your child has a learning disability, it makes sense to focus on private. If you want your child to go to school with wealthy, connected people, that can happy at public school. Or even in college. There are many non-magnet public school children that attend highly competitive colleges. There are many non-magnet public school children (and non private school children) who have high paying careers.

Go with whatever school has higher admission standards. Either public or private. But that is usually private.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not rip him away from his friends. That's cruel.

Or is it cruel to leave him in his current school?

Why would it be cruel to leave a child where they are happy and doing well?

Doing well by what measures? The standards at public school?

You do realize that a lot of people (including in my extended family) send their kid to private because they couldn’t hack it according to public school standards? A relative of mine was going to have to repeat a grade in public, but was then was welcomed with open arms by a private school. Of course there are extremely rigorous private schools. I’m just saying that it’s an absurdly broad brush to say all private schools have higher standards than public schools, or vice versa. It all depends on the individual school.

Unless it is a magnet public school that kids test into, the standards at public are going to be low.

Maybe at some public schools, yes. But borne of my personal experience, some private schools have even lower standards than certain public schools. As I said, it all depends on the school. Comparisons between specific schools are possible, but broad comparisons of simply “public vs. private” don’t yield useful info.

At every non-magnet public school.

My family member who was asked to repeat a grade attended a well-regarded, but not magnet, public elementary school. Fortunately, a nearby private school admitted her. Standard are different for different schools, public or private. I’m not sure why people get so invested in declaring that one type of school is automatically better than another. Some *schools* are better than others. That’s it.

[Anonymous]

I was going to try to encourage you to stick with public then read the last line. Yes, please just go burn $$$ for no reason. You deserve it.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of nuts automatically believe that private schools are better for their kids than public? There are so many factors and priorities to consider. It's so much more complex than that. If your child has a learning disability, it makes sense to focus on private. If you want your child to go to school with wealthy, connected people, that can happy at public school. Or even in college. There are many non-magnet public school children that attend highly competitive colleges. There are many non-magnet public school children (and non private school children) who have high paying careers.

Go with whatever school has higher admission standards. Either public or private. But that is usually private.

What an ignorant comment. Public schools do not have "admissions standards." They are public.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of nuts automatically believe that private schools are better for their kids than public? There are so many factors and priorities to consider. It's so much more complex than that. If your child has a learning disability, it makes sense to focus on private. If you want your child to go to school with wealthy, connected people, that can happy at public school. Or even in college. There are many non-magnet public school children that attend highly competitive colleges. There are many non-magnet public school children (and non private school children) who have high paying careers.

Go with whatever school has higher admission standards. Either public or private. But that is usually private.

What an ignorant comment. Public schools do not have "admissions standards." They are public.

Public magnets do. What planet do you live on?