2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

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A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

We consider the private school money to be well spent. No regrets. Laughing at your assumptions.

I think it’s great that you think it’s $$ well spent. Lots of people do. But it’s not worth the $$ for education alone. You can get the same thing in public school. You’re paying for the extras.

If by "extras" you mean music/choir, art, performing arts/stagecraft, TV/film production, sports (many options not just one per season), experiential learning/class trips, PhD level educators and more then yes, I pay for the extras.

I'm a product of public school so I know first hand that my experience and my kids experience are polar opposites and my investment (and yes, I consider funding their education and investment in my kids and their learning/experiences) are in no way a waste. You do you!

You are ridiculous if you think kids don’t have all of this (and more) in public school. My kids certainly do - and we’re not even in a W school.

What I meant by “extras” is a peer group in the same socioeconomic class, individualized attention, no problem kids, that kind of stuff. But as far as class offerings and quality of education you’re not getting anything better than what you get in a public school. Like I said before, private parents will never admit this.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

Not anymore...but you keep believing what you do.

The truth of the matter is you will most likely get an inferior education in a public school. It IS possible to get a decent education. But an excellent education? LOL...maybe at TJ but even that is suspect these days.

There are so many super smart well educated kids coming out of publics. But sure, their education is sub par. Only Richie Rich’s kids are getting an EXCELLENT education at Sidwell

Sure but trust me...I know. My friends whose kids just entered college in the past year are all complaining their kids never learned to really study for cumulative assessments. They never had them at their MCPS W school where they give you semester grade of A when you have a 79 and 89 for each quarter. These kids played games with the numbers and are sorely unprepared for college. These are kids who took multiple APs too.

Really? All of them? Every single one?
No exaggeration there, I’m sure. Unless you’re talking about 1 or 2 people.

Of course not every one...but a good portion.

But if you look at their college commits, they are spectacular. You would think that if a good portion of public school kids are sub par, these T25 schools would stop taking them.

A very very small percentage of kids from the top Bethesda area schools get into the top 20 (about 5%). I am talking about the remaining 95% of those students. Of the 8 schools that Bethesda Magazine featured in their report on matriculations, there were about 250 students of the total of 4600 seniors who ended u at top 20 schools. Of course of the remaining 4350 students, there were some who will be just fine, but many many struggle due to poor preparation for college. And I know you will say that is because of poor parenting, but that is not always the case. It is because of low expectations on the part of MCPS.

I cannot believe that you believe that 95% of these students will struggle in college and only 250 will be ok. You’re telling yourself stories.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

Not anymore...but you keep believing what you do.

The truth of the matter is you will most likely get an inferior education in a public school. It IS possible to get a decent education. But an excellent education? LOL...maybe at TJ but even that is suspect these days.

There are so many super smart well educated kids coming out of publics. But sure, their education is sub par. Only Richie Rich’s kids are getting an EXCELLENT education at Sidwell

Sure but trust me...I know. My friends whose kids just entered college in the past year are all complaining their kids never learned to really study for cumulative assessments. They never had them at their MCPS W school where they give you semester grade of A when you have a 79 and 89 for each quarter. These kids played games with the numbers and are sorely unprepared for college. These are kids who took multiple APs too.

Really? All of them? Every single one?
No exaggeration there, I’m sure. Unless you’re talking about 1 or 2 people.

Of course not every one...but a good portion.

But if you look at their college commits, they are spectacular. You would think that if a good portion of public school kids are sub par, these T25 schools would stop taking them.

Spectacular? Umm…no. Respectable? Sure.
No need to overstate to make whatever point you’re trying to make.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

You can get an excellent education in public school and some kids do, on average the entire experience is much worse and the sheer volume of kids means you get little individual attention. You are also more likely to get assaulted in public school, as my kid experienced before we moved to private. Except for the 6 months when my public school was entirely virtual while the private schools held in person classes during Covid, my kids are physically safer in their private school. If you’re super rich but none of this is important to you that’s fine, but my values are different.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

We consider the private school money to be well spent. No regrets. Laughing at your assumptions.

I think it’s great that you think it’s $$ well spent. Lots of people do. But it’s not worth the $$ for education alone. You can get the same thing in public school. You’re paying for the extras.

If by "extras" you mean music/choir, art, performing arts/stagecraft, TV/film production, sports (many options not just one per season), experiential learning/class trips, PhD level educators and more then yes, I pay for the extras.

I'm a product of public school so I know first hand that my experience and my kids experience are polar opposites and my investment (and yes, I consider funding their education and investment in my kids and their learning/experiences) are in no way a waste. You do you!

You are ridiculous if you think kids don’t have all of this (and more) in public school. My kids certainly do - and we’re not even in a W school.

What I meant by “extras” is a peer group in the same socioeconomic class, individualized attention, no problem kids, that kind of stuff. But as far as class offerings and quality of education you’re not getting anything better than what you get in a public school. Like I said before, private parents will never admit this.

My local public school offers exactly the same European history class as our private with the exact same textbook, I’m guessing both teachers are great. My kid is in a class of 15 students with a class trip overseas to experience the material, in our public school the class has 30 and some kids stand for the class time. Is this the same experience? Some public parents will never admit this.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

We consider the private school money to be well spent. No regrets. Laughing at your assumptions.

I think it’s great that you think it’s $$ well spent. Lots of people do. But it’s not worth the $$ for education alone. You can get the same thing in public school. You’re paying for the extras.

If by "extras" you mean music/choir, art, performing arts/stagecraft, TV/film production, sports (many options not just one per season), experiential learning/class trips, PhD level educators and more then yes, I pay for the extras.

I'm a product of public school so I know first hand that my experience and my kids experience are polar opposites and my investment (and yes, I consider funding their education and investment in my kids and their learning/experiences) are in no way a waste. You do you!

You are ridiculous if you think kids don’t have all of this (and more) in public school. My kids certainly do - and we’re not even in a W school.

What I meant by “extras” is a peer group in the same socioeconomic class, individualized attention, no problem kids, that kind of stuff. But as far as class offerings and quality of education you’re not getting anything better than what you get in a public school. Like I said before, private parents will never admit this.

My local public school offers exactly the same European history class as our private with the exact same textbook, I’m guessing both teachers are great. My kid is in a class of 15 students with a class trip overseas to experience the material, in our public school the class has 30 and some kids stand for the class time. Is this the same experience? Some public parents will never admit this.

The exam scores say it all. My kid got a 5 on every single one of his AP exams--I think every kid in his APUSH and AP Euro class got 5s--there may have been 1 or 2 '4s'. This is a private. My kid did not 'study' much at all for the exams. The class was very well-prepared.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

Not anymore...but you keep believing what you do.

The truth of the matter is you will most likely get an inferior education in a public school. It IS possible to get a decent education. But an excellent education? LOL...maybe at TJ but even that is suspect these days.

There are so many super smart well educated kids coming out of publics. But sure, their education is sub par. Only Richie Rich’s kids are getting an EXCELLENT education at Sidwell

Sure but trust me...I know. My friends whose kids just entered college in the past year are all complaining their kids never learned to really study for cumulative assessments. They never had them at their MCPS W school where they give you semester grade of A when you have a 79 and 89 for each quarter. These kids played games with the numbers and are sorely unprepared for college. These are kids who took multiple APs too.

Really? All of them? Every single one?
No exaggeration there, I’m sure. Unless you’re talking about 1 or 2 people.

Of course not every one...but a good portion.

But if you look at their college commits, they are spectacular. You would think that if a good portion of public school kids are sub par, these T25 schools would stop taking them.

A very very small percentage of kids from the top Bethesda area schools get into the top 20 (about 5%). I am talking about the remaining 95% of those students. Of the 8 schools that Bethesda Magazine featured in their report on matriculations, there were about 250 students of the total of 4600 seniors who ended u at top 20 schools. Of course of the remaining 4350 students, there were some who will be just fine, but many many struggle due to poor preparation for college. And I know you will say that is because of poor parenting, but that is not always the case. It is because of low expectations on the part of MCPS.

I cannot believe that you believe that 95% of these students will struggle in college and only 250 will be ok. You’re telling yourself stories.

I never said 95% would struggle. This is what I said verbatim: "Of course of the remaining 4350 students, there were some who will be just fine, but many many struggle due to poor preparation for college.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

We consider the private school money to be well spent. No regrets. Laughing at your assumptions.

I think it’s great that you think it’s $$ well spent. Lots of people do. But it’s not worth the $$ for education alone. You can get the same thing in public school. You’re paying for the extras.

If by "extras" you mean music/choir, art, performing arts/stagecraft, TV/film production, sports (many options not just one per season), experiential learning/class trips, PhD level educators and more then yes, I pay for the extras.

I'm a product of public school so I know first hand that my experience and my kids experience are polar opposites and my investment (and yes, I consider funding their education and investment in my kids and their learning/experiences) are in no way a waste. You do you!

You are ridiculous if you think kids don’t have all of this (and more) in public school. My kids certainly do - and we’re not even in a W school.

What I meant by “extras” is a peer group in the same socioeconomic class, individualized attention, no problem kids, that kind of stuff. But as far as class offerings and quality of education you’re not getting anything better than what you get in a public school. Like I said before, private parents will never admit this.

No problem kids. That alone is worth the thousands of dollars to me!! But seriously, in addition to what you mention above, class size is a significant benefit to private school education. My HS daughter has classes that max out at 17 and are as small as 12. Nobody gets lost in the class and consequently, the class is able to move along at a good pace. Teachers give very detailed feedback on papers in English class. I looked at my daughter's papers that were returned, and her teacher had very insightful and thorough comments throughout her paper that are in some cases several sentences long. This is on a paper where she received an A. I know for a fact this doesn't happen in public schools on that scale. Also, if I send an email to the teacher for any reason, I get a response usually with a few hours...sometimes less. The longest I ever waited for a response from the school on any issue was 24 hours.

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Anyway, can we get back to talking about private school college admits?

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

We consider the private school money to be well spent. No regrets. Laughing at your assumptions.

I think it’s great that you think it’s $$ well spent. Lots of people do. But it’s not worth the $$ for education alone. You can get the same thing in public school. You’re paying for the extras.

If by "extras" you mean music/choir, art, performing arts/stagecraft, TV/film production, sports (many options not just one per season), experiential learning/class trips, PhD level educators and more then yes, I pay for the extras.

I'm a product of public school so I know first hand that my experience and my kids experience are polar opposites and my investment (and yes, I consider funding their education and investment in my kids and their learning/experiences) are in no way a waste. You do you!

You are ridiculous if you think kids don’t have all of this (and more) in public school. My kids certainly do - and we’re not even in a W school.

What I meant by “extras” is a peer group in the same socioeconomic class, individualized attention, no problem kids, that kind of stuff. But as far as class offerings and quality of education you’re not getting anything better than what you get in a public school. Like I said before, private parents will never admit this.

My local public school offers exactly the same European history class as our private with the exact same textbook, I’m guessing both teachers are great. My kid is in a class of 15 students with a class trip overseas to experience the material, in our public school the class has 30 and some kids stand for the class time. Is this the same experience? Some public parents will never admit this.

Absolutely no one is arguing that public school kids have the same experience as private school kids, but good try.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

You can get an excellent education in public school and some kids do, on average the entire experience is much worse and the sheer volume of kids means you get little individual attention. You are also more likely to get assaulted in public school, as my kid experienced before we moved to private. Except for the 6 months when my public school was entirely virtual while the private schools held in person classes during Covid, my kids are physically safer in their private school. If you’re super rich but none of this is important to you that’s fine, but my values are different.

Finally a private school parent admitting they are paying for the extras! Well cut me down and call me shorty!

These extras are absolutely worth it to many people. And that’s 100% ok and a valid point. And I’ll never fault anyone for that. But anyone arguing about getting a better education at a private is just deluding themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

We consider the private school money to be well spent. No regrets. Laughing at your assumptions.

I think it’s great that you think it’s $$ well spent. Lots of people do. But it’s not worth the $$ for education alone. You can get the same thing in public school. You’re paying for the extras.

If by "extras" you mean music/choir, art, performing arts/stagecraft, TV/film production, sports (many options not just one per season), experiential learning/class trips, PhD level educators and more then yes, I pay for the extras.

I'm a product of public school so I know first hand that my experience and my kids experience are polar opposites and my investment (and yes, I consider funding their education and investment in my kids and their learning/experiences) are in no way a waste. You do you!

You are ridiculous if you think kids don’t have all of this (and more) in public school. My kids certainly do - and we’re not even in a W school.

What I meant by “extras” is a peer group in the same socioeconomic class, individualized attention, no problem kids, that kind of stuff. But as far as class offerings and quality of education you’re not getting anything better than what you get in a public school. Like I said before, private parents will never admit this.

My local public school offers exactly the same European history class as our private with the exact same textbook, I’m guessing both teachers are great. My kid is in a class of 15 students with a class trip overseas to experience the material, in our public school the class has 30 and some kids stand for the class time. Is this the same experience? Some public parents will never admit this.

Absolutely no one is arguing that public school kids have the same experience as private school kids, but good try.

I’m just wondering why the public school boosters constantly come on the private school board to try and argue that public school is just as good. Do you think the private school parents know nothing about their public schools and your comments are going to inform or convince them of something? I sent my kids to our local public schools for several years and I know what I’m spending a fortune getting my kids away from, what is the point of this conversation?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

You can get an excellent education in public school and some kids do, on average the entire experience is much worse and the sheer volume of kids means you get little individual attention. You are also more likely to get assaulted in public school, as my kid experienced before we moved to private. Except for the 6 months when my public school was entirely virtual while the private schools held in person classes during Covid, my kids are physically safer in their private school. If you’re super rich but none of this is important to you that’s fine, but my values are different.

Finally a private school parent admitting they are paying for the extras! Well cut me down and call me shorty!

These extras are absolutely worth it to many people. And that’s 100% ok and a valid point. And I’ll never fault anyone for that. But anyone arguing about getting a better education at a private is just deluding themselves.

The not getting assaulted part is an extra? Or the being in smaller classes part? Personally I think being in a smaller class while not getting assaulted is a better education but you delude yourself wherever you want to.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

You can get an excellent education in public school and some kids do, on average the entire experience is much worse and the sheer volume of kids means you get little individual attention. You are also more likely to get assaulted in public school, as my kid experienced before we moved to private. Except for the 6 months when my public school was entirely virtual while the private schools held in person classes during Covid, my kids are physically safer in their private school. If you’re super rich but none of this is important to you that’s fine, but my values are different.

Finally a private school parent admitting they are paying for the extras! Well cut me down and call me shorty!

These extras are absolutely worth it to many people. And that’s 100% ok and a valid point. And I’ll never fault anyone for that. But anyone arguing about getting a better education at a private is just deluding themselves.

That’s not all that private schools offer. However, I hope you understand that the aforementioned “extras” mean that most private schools offer a better educational experience than most public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

What are W schools parents doing commenting on this thread? Justifying their existence?

More like triggering insecure private school parents who need to justify their decisions

Or regret their decision to spend millions on privates..

The justification is supported by facts. Read the two articles (above) posted by Stanford and Dartmouth students.

You sound like you regret not having millions to spend on a private school education for your children. Sucks to be you.

NP
We absolutely could have afforded private education for our kids. They were in private until 6th and 3rd grade. Then we pulled them for public. Zero regrets. So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.

“So so so glad we didn’t spend all that $$ for the possibility of a college maybe ranked a bit higher. I mean really, what a waste.”

The bolded font is why I know you can’t really afford a private school education through 12th grade. As the saying goes, “if you could, you would.” You and I both know that the teaching, resources, connections, individualized learning, etc of a top private simply cannot be duplicated in any public school around here. You may get a decent (even good) public school education, but the overall quality of the experience is inferior. Anyone who can truly afford the best education for their children would pay pay the cost.

You don’t seem to be hearing that I could, but didn’t want to. Even rich people think certain things are a waste. For us, private school is one of them.

“Rich people” who think it’s “a waste” to provide the best education possible for their children? Those people are ignorant.

You can get an excellent education in public school. You don’t need to pay $50,000/year for that. You’re paying for the experience and “status” of the classmates and their parents. But you’ll never admit that.

You can get an excellent education in public school and some kids do, on average the entire experience is much worse and the sheer volume of kids means you get little individual attention. You are also more likely to get assaulted in public school, as my kid experienced before we moved to private. Except for the 6 months when my public school was entirely virtual while the private schools held in person classes during Covid, my kids are physically safer in their private school. If you’re super rich but none of this is important to you that’s fine, but my values are different.

Finally a private school parent admitting they are paying for the extras! Well cut me down and call me shorty!

These extras are absolutely worth it to many people. And that’s 100% ok and a valid point. And I’ll never fault anyone for that. But anyone arguing about getting a better education at a private is just deluding themselves.

That’s not all that private schools offer. However, I hope you understand that the aforementioned “extras” mean that most private schools offer a better educational experience than most public schools.

EXPERIENCE. Offer a better educational EXPERIENCE. Not a better education. Just to be clear.