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

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

It’s so easy to dismiss the truth by calling people trolls.

And yet we all see the many threads on here lamenting about how crappy MCPS is.

In what world does that translate into your kids being fine, much less “doing great”?

DP. The problem is posters like you projecting your views onto other people’s children and thinking you somehow know better than their parents.

Nope. We’ve provided concrete data to prove that private schools are stronger. You’ve all ignored it.

I commented when you had the audacity to suggest that PP’s own children were not in fact doing fine as s/he claims. That’s something very different from saying private schools are better.

What I said is that kids doing great doesn’t really square with the seeming consensus that the English curriculum, at least, is horrible.

There are a lot of bests and better thans in parenthood. Very few children are going to get the best of everything all the time. I would love for my kids to get access to private English/social studies but they probably won’t. Fortunately they have many other advantages. My kids doing great despite not getting private English is wildly unsurprising.

Don’t blame people for questioning it when the MCPS English curriculum is known to be exceptionally poor, and there are multiple threads going right now, discussing it.

I do, actually. Say what you will about the curriculum but when you start to question what individual parents are saying about their *own* kids, it says a lot about you.

If you think your kids are “doing great,” with a notoriously horrible English curriculum, then congrats on your kids for being exceptionally unusual.

The PP: my kid is doing great
You: ackshually your kid is not doing great

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

I think maybe PP is saying that private school kids still get into the same colleges, so it’s not worth the money?

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

Try Raj Chetty's definition: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/07/24/1189443223/affirmative-action-for-rich-kids-its-more-than-just-legacy-admissions

"the eight Ivy League schools — Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and UPenn — as well as Stanford, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago"

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

Try Raj Chetty's definition: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/07/24/1189443223/affirmative-action-for-rich-kids-its-more-than-just-legacy-admissions

"the eight Ivy League schools — Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and UPenn — as well as Stanford, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago"

That’s so arbitrary. What about CalTech? What about the top LACs? These categories are stupid.

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

I think maybe PP is saying that private school kids still get into the same colleges, so it’s not worth the money?

Yes, that's correct. They're going to be really disappointed if their DD could've just gone to a public W and achieved the same result. They'll never admit this. It'll be cloaked in "small classrooms", "individual attention" or some other experiential benefit. For most of them, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

Try Raj Chetty's definition: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/07/24/1189443223/affirmative-action-for-rich-kids-its-more-than-just-legacy-admissions

"the eight Ivy League schools — Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and UPenn — as well as Stanford, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago"

That’s so arbitrary. What about CalTech? What about the top LACs? These categories are stupid.

I agree generally although LACs are certainly a different kind of school given the undergraduate focus and lack of grad programming. “Ivy” is literally a sports consortium that ended up correlating to a certain caliber of education. Ivy+ seems like it’s trying to expand the label to include all the “best” schools, and I agree it’s kind of silly.

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

It’s so easy to dismiss the truth by calling people trolls.

And yet we all see the many threads on here lamenting about how crappy MCPS is.

In what world does that translate into your kids being fine, much less “doing great”?

DP. The problem is posters like you projecting your views onto other people’s children and thinking you somehow know better than their parents.

Nope. We’ve provided concrete data to prove that private schools are stronger. You’ve all ignored it.

I commented when you had the audacity to suggest that PP’s own children were not in fact doing fine as s/he claims. That’s something very different from saying private schools are better.

What I said is that kids doing great doesn’t really square with the seeming consensus that the English curriculum, at least, is horrible.

There are a lot of bests and better thans in parenthood. Very few children are going to get the best of everything all the time. I would love for my kids to get access to private English/social studies but they probably won’t. Fortunately they have many other advantages. My kids doing great despite not getting private English is wildly unsurprising.

Don’t blame people for questioning it when the MCPS English curriculum is known to be exceptionally poor, and there are multiple threads going right now, discussing it.

I do, actually. Say what you will about the curriculum but when you start to question what individual parents are saying about their *own* kids, it says a lot about you.

If you think your kids are “doing great,” with a notoriously horrible English curriculum, then congrats on your kids for being exceptionally unusual.

Yeah, sorry to hear yours are so mediocre; that must be disappointing.

Honestly I’m not sure how you were educated yourself, but you don’t seem to have mastered critical thinking if you can’t grasp that public schools serve a range of abilities and some students do better than others. A poor curriculum is worthy of criticism, but it is not the whole story. Different teachers, different schools, different parents, different kids, different supplementary material outside school…. There are just so many variables here. I’m not sure why you’re so bent on bringing other parents down for their choices. Sounds like you love private school for your kids. Isn’t that enough?

The sheer level of effort in a public school forum to tear down publics just doesn't make sense. Why?

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

I think maybe PP is saying that private school kids still get into the same colleges, so it’s not worth the money?

Yes, that's correct. They're going to be really disappointed if their DD could've just gone to a public W and achieved the same result. They'll never admit this. It'll be cloaked in "small classrooms", "individual attention" or some other experiential benefit. For most of them, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

You deeply misunderstand the benefits of a top notch private school education. It’s not just about trying to somehow game the college admissions system.

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

I think maybe PP is saying that private school kids still get into the same colleges, so it’s not worth the money?

Yes, that's correct. They're going to be really disappointed if their DD could've just gone to a public W and achieved the same result. They'll never admit this. It'll be cloaked in "small classrooms", "individual attention" or some other experiential benefit. For most of them, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

You deeply misunderstand the benefits of a top notch private school education. It’s not just about trying to somehow game the college admissions system.

PP, should I add the individual level of faculty attention, the peer and alumni network, the resources showered upon you once you arrive on campus, and/or the signaling benefits of being an alumnus? Perhaps, it's the alleged "life experience and maturity" (i.e., class) gained at a boarding school? I have friends that attended Andover, Harvard-Westlake, and Dalton. I have friends who attended Sidwell, NCS and other local haunts. My father went to one of these. Many of these kids would've done just fine going to a W school - an education that they could've had for free. Unfortunately, there are quite a few parents deluding themselves into thinking their DD is special. It'll be a sad day when they wake up and realize they're not. They'll comfort themselves that the aforementioned benefits somehow justified the cost.

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https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1146385.page

NP but I was going to say that if we could afford a private school with superior ELA instruction, that might be reason enough for us. Most other stuff we can live with (or even like) but the ELA curriculum is a weak link, and a big one at that.

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

I think maybe PP is saying that private school kids still get into the same colleges, so it’s not worth the money?

Yes, that's correct. They're going to be really disappointed if their DD could've just gone to a public W and achieved the same result. They'll never admit this. It'll be cloaked in "small classrooms", "individual attention" or some other experiential benefit. For most of them, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

You deeply misunderstand the benefits of a top notch private school education. It’s not just about trying to somehow game the college admissions system.

So what is it about, in addition to trying to somehow game the college admissions system?

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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?

Hmm, since you are posting this in the MCPS forum where the ‘W’ parents are, I suspect everyone is going to say no, they would not. You need to post this in the private school forum and ask parents who have either done it or are contemplating it. Most parents here know nothing about private school or are misinformed. In fact, I know this same question has been asked there. The ‘W’ schools are used as a friend of reference in that forum sometimes. It’s worth taking a look.

Also, we made the switch and have no regrets. It’s like night and day but I will say it depends on what private school you choose. Look carefully and read reviews.

At some point everyone here is going to realize this was a troll posting or the private school parent(s) will just never accept that some of us are able to afford private schools and yet are just fine with our kids in public school. Some of the “just fine Group” have checked out private schools and still chose public. Some of us went to these top private schools ourselves and guess where our kids are… in public. Some of us have not had a reason to look at private schools. Either way, there is a huge group of parents in this area that can afford private school and yet still send there kid to public school. If you can’t wrap your mind around that, it’s okay, we have, so have our kids. There’s no need for you to worry about our kids, they’re doing great.

ikr, the private school parents are really defensive. I wonder why they care so much?

Yes you’re right! We’re DESPERATE for your kids to enroll. PLEASE apply! We’re begging you.

Because if their DD doesn't get into an Ivy+, then it'll be seen as a major let down. They don't want to be reminded of paying their property taxes (and not getting the public school benefits) and burning through at least a half million in private school tuition when their DD could've graduated from a W and still matriculated to the same George Washington, Pittsburgh or a mediocre SLAC.

Your post is barely coherent.

I found the post easy to follow, except that I don't know what an Ivy+ is.

I think maybe PP is saying that private school kids still get into the same colleges, so it’s not worth the money?

Yes, that's correct. They're going to be really disappointed if their DD could've just gone to a public W and achieved the same result. They'll never admit this. It'll be cloaked in "small classrooms", "individual attention" or some other experiential benefit. For most of them, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

You deeply misunderstand the benefits of a top notch private school education. It’s not just about trying to somehow game the college admissions system.

PP, should I add the individual level of faculty attention, the peer and alumni network, the resources showered upon you once you arrive on campus, and/or the signaling benefits of being an alumnus? Perhaps, it's the alleged "life experience and maturity" (i.e., class) gained at a boarding school? I have friends that attended Andover, Harvard-Westlake, and Dalton. I have friends who attended Sidwell, NCS and other local haunts. My father went to one of these. Many of these kids would've done just fine going to a W school - an education that they could've had for free. Unfortunately, there are quite a few parents deluding themselves into thinking their DD is special. It'll be a sad day when they wake up and realize they're not. They'll comfort themselves that the aforementioned benefits somehow justified the cost.

I went to college with people who went to Andover etc., and mainly what I observed was a well-developed ability to get drunk four nights a week while still maintaining good grades.