If money was not an issue would you do Private School?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I lived in a smaller or less affluent town, yes, private.

But here? Nah. My kids don’t need to be surrounded only by super wealthy kids with helicopter moms, daily tutors and lessons, fancy spring break vacations, luxury cars in HS, etc.

What you describe is not what we are experiencing. In fact, our public school had much more of that than our current private school.

[Anonymous]

I would choose private if money was no object at least for my Dyslexic child I would choose Oakwood or Sienna if money wasn't an issue.

[Anonymous]

I would but not for the reasons you think. My child is more of a hands on learner and I'd love to find a school that has more experiential learning. I have nothing against our public school - just that I think she might learn better in a different learning environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I lived in a smaller or less affluent town, yes, private.

But here? Nah. My kids don’t need to be surrounded only by super wealthy kids with helicopter moms, daily tutors and lessons, fancy spring break vacations, luxury cars in HS, etc.

What you describe is not what we are experiencing. In fact, our public school had much more of that than our current private school.

Yep. We have all this at our public school!

[Anonymous]

HHI is over $1m annually and our kids all attend public shcool (excluding our preschooler). The only private school that is better than our local public school is a 40 minute drive each way, which is 80 minutes that they can spend doing other things, like music lessons, supplemental math (we use AoPS), and sports. I pay close attention to their school work so if things stop working at public school, we'll make a change, but for now, the opportunity cost of the long drive keeps us in public.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I’m a second. I was a strong believer in public schools but really didn’t understand how bad they can be. The equity focus and general inclusion means teachers are in over their skis with behavioral issues or learning deficits. Private school doesn’t have better teachers, they have kids that don’t suck up all the teachers time. My niece is one such kid and my sister has desperately tried to get her kid into a private with special needs but can’t afford it and the district won’t approve to pick up the tab. Them obsessive desire to lump all kids together is hurting most.

[Anonymous]

Pre-COVID I wouldn't have. Post-COVID, I should have moved over sooner.

[Anonymous]

DC has some amazing secular private schools. But many areas of the country do not, especially if you aren’t close to a major city. It is either mediocre catholic school or public

[Anonymous]

Even when money was an issue we chose private schools for our children. It has been worth every penny. I firmly believe that our children are better educated than they would have been at our local public schools AND we very much appreciate that our children have been in schools where the families have similar value systems. Don't mistake value systems for diversity. The schools have been satisfactorily diverse (important to us because we are a multi-racial family and we wanted our children to feel like they belonged) but it is the similarity in values, social mores and ethics that have been the most important to us. We would have paid any amount of money for our children to be in the private schools we chose for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even when money was an issue we chose private schools for our children. It has been worth every penny. I firmly believe that our children are better educated than they would have been at our local public schools AND we very much appreciate that our children have been in schools where the families have similar value systems. Don't mistake value systems for diversity. The schools have been satisfactorily diverse (important to us because we are a multi-racial family and we wanted our children to feel like they belonged) but it is the similarity in values, social mores and ethics that have been the most important to us. We would have paid any amount of money for our children to be in the private schools we chose for them.

Sounds like you have no idea about public in contrast to your private. My private is not better than public and yours may not be either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even when money was an issue we chose private schools for our children. It has been worth every penny. I firmly believe that our children are better educated than they would have been at our local public schools AND we very much appreciate that our children have been in schools where the families have similar value systems. Don't mistake value systems for diversity. The schools have been satisfactorily diverse (important to us because we are a multi-racial family and we wanted our children to feel like they belonged) but it is the similarity in values, social mores and ethics that have been the most important to us. We would have paid any amount of money for our children to be in the private schools we chose for them.

Sounds like you have no idea about public in contrast to your private. My private is not better than public and yours may not be either.

I am a public school teacher. I have a very good idea about what our local public school is like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even when money was an issue we chose private schools for our children. It has been worth every penny. I firmly believe that our children are better educated than they would have been at our local public schools AND we very much appreciate that our children have been in schools where the families have similar value systems. Don't mistake value systems for diversity. The schools have been satisfactorily diverse (important to us because we are a multi-racial family and we wanted our children to feel like they belonged) but it is the similarity in values, social mores and ethics that have been the most important to us. We would have paid any amount of money for our children to be in the private schools we chose for them.

Sounds like you have no idea about public in contrast to your private. My private is not better than public and yours may not be either.

I am a public school teacher. I have a very good idea about what our local public school is like.

Sure you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HHI is over $1m annually and our kids all attend public shcool (excluding our preschooler). The only private school that is better than our local public school is a 40 minute drive each way, which is 80 minutes that they can spend doing other things, like music lessons, supplemental math (we use AoPS), and sports. I pay close attention to their school work so if things stop working at public school, we'll make a change, but for now, the opportunity cost of the long drive keeps us in public.

Oh my, if they are doing AoPS then they certainly don’t need private for then math instruction! Good move. I so wish there was an AoPS center in shooting distance from us, but just Beast Academy for us so far…and DC public school for now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even when money was an issue we chose private schools for our children. It has been worth every penny. I firmly believe that our children are better educated than they would have been at our local public schools AND we very much appreciate that our children have been in schools where the families have similar value systems. Don't mistake value systems for diversity. The schools have been satisfactorily diverse (important to us because we are a multi-racial family and we wanted our children to feel like they belonged) but it is the similarity in values, social mores and ethics that have been the most important to us. We would have paid any amount of money for our children to be in the private schools we chose for them.

Sounds like you have no idea about public in contrast to your private. My private is not better than public and yours may not be either.

I am a public school teacher. I have a very good idea about what our local public school is like.

Sure you are.

Why would you doubt me? I would say that it is 50/50 for my peers that half of us send our kids to public school and half of us send our kids to private. I believe strongly in public school but it was not the right choice for our family (as described above). Fortunately my husband earns more than enough to carry the cost for the schools and our nanny. My salary doesn't even make a dent. It is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even when money was an issue we chose private schools for our children. It has been worth every penny. I firmly believe that our children are better educated than they would have been at our local public schools AND we very much appreciate that our children have been in schools where the families have similar value systems. Don't mistake value systems for diversity. The schools have been satisfactorily diverse (important to us because we are a multi-racial family and we wanted our children to feel like they belonged) but it is the similarity in values, social mores and ethics that have been the most important to us. We would have paid any amount of money for our children to be in the private schools we chose for them.

That sounds nice, but that hasn’t been my experience. There are terrible parents (and thus reflected in their kids) at every income level. There are plenty of private school parents/families that look the part of outstanding citizen, but are totally checked out from actually parenting their kids. They outsource most things and have do none of the grit real parenting takes. Their very average intelligence kids are spoiled, entitled, and think they are something special. They do all the same “bad kid” stuff too, just aren’t as obvious about it. These types of kids to me, are a worse influence than the troubled kids of the low income struggling parents found at public schools.