What is even the point of private schools?

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Anonymous wrote:with how it is nearly impossble for kids to get into Ivys unhooked.

with the insane woke brainwashing and the inbedding of politics into the circirulum and the loss of traditional learning

with schools and universities disregarding objective measures like SAT scores, AP test scores.

with top universities graduates having problems paying off their student loans and getting jobs


It all just feels pointless.

I had similar thoughts 30 years ago as a high school student, and it turned out I had depression. In my case, I became suicidal. OP, there’s so much more to life than going into absurd debt for a sheet of paper that you may not be able to pay off. Forgetting this is dangerous. There are kids who will do great things with the education they’re getting in public and private schools. Most of those kids will not go to Ivy League colleges. A debt-inducing Cornell degree is not the end goal.

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Anonymous wrote:I love seeing these ridiculous threads in the private school forum on whether private schools should exist at all. It's not a valid question for private school families who have already made that choice.

Next up I'm going to the soccer forum to ask whether anyone should ever play soccer, and the trying to conceive forum to ask why everyone shouldn't just remain childless...

This. The person who started this 🧵 is not even a private school parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We left DCPS for top privates in 9th grade because my kids could barely write a basic essay.
Also, I have personally known many DCPS grads who struggled in college. Sure, on DCUM somebody's uncle's cousin's friend left JR and aced his classes at Harvard but in my real-life world, among people I know and trust, (relatives, close friends, etc) there are many grads who struggled. So the point of private school for us is far, far better instruction.

Maybe it's not the school but it's the kid. Such kid should be in private. I know many who don't struggle, have no need for private and maybe not even for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you assume they are not indoctrinated with Marxist propaganda at public school?

Oh they definitely are. Signed, a public school teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

That’s what you are getting for $60k
a year? My neighborhood Catholic school teaches that successfully in first grade and their students are crushing MAP scores.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

That’s what you are getting for $60k
a year? My neighborhood Catholic school teaches that successfully in first grade and their students are crushing MAP scores.

Which DC Metro private schools charge $60k/year?!?

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Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

That’s what you are getting for $60k
a year? My neighborhood Catholic school teaches that successfully in first grade and their students are crushing MAP scores.

Which DC Metro private schools charge $60k/year?!?

There are a few at 56 or so per year and when you add in the rest it is darn near 60.

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Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

That’s what you are getting for $60k
a year? My neighborhood Catholic school teaches that successfully in first grade and their students are crushing MAP scores.

Which DC Metro private schools charge $60k/year?!?

There are a few at 56 or so per year and when you add in the rest it is darn near 60.

Just say you’re wrong and move on.

My children attend Sidwell. While the cost is high ($55,000), Sidwell does not nickel and dime you. Outside of books, that cost is pretty all-inclusive (laptop, lunch, sports uniforms, yearbook, etc), unless your child elects to participate in special activities. Even the books have been fairly reasonable—about $300 to $500/year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:with how it is nearly impossble for kids to get into Ivys unhooked.

with the insane woke brainwashing and the inbedding of politics into the circirulum and the loss of traditional learning

with schools and universities disregarding objective measures like SAT scores, AP test scores.

with top universities graduates having problems paying off their student loans and getting jobs


It all just feels pointless.

They are for people who don't see the world in extreme, ridiculous, politicized caricatures.

You don't live in that world, clearly, so just let it go and move on. Lots of good MAGA causes to spend your money on instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

That’s what you are getting for $60k
a year? My neighborhood Catholic school teaches that successfully in first grade and their students are crushing MAP scores.

Which DC Metro private schools charge $60k/year?!?

There are a few at 56 or so per year and when you add in the rest it is darn near 60.

Just say you’re wrong and move on.

My children attend Sidwell. While the cost is high ($55,000), Sidwell does not nickel and dime you. Outside of books, that cost is pretty all-inclusive (laptop, lunch, sports uniforms, yearbook, etc), unless your child elects to participate in special activities. Even the books have been fairly reasonable—about $300 to $500/year.

55+ expected donation you are at about 60. It’ll be 60 next year anyways with the usual annual increase. Why are you splitting hairs?

[Anonymous]

Enough with the “woke brainwashing” boogeyman.

Go crawl back into your Moms of Liberty cave.

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Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

That’s what you are getting for $60k
a year? My neighborhood Catholic school teaches that successfully in first grade and their students are crushing MAP scores.

Which DC Metro private schools charge $60k/year?!?

There are a few at 56 or so per year and when you add in the rest it is darn near 60.

Just say you’re wrong and move on.

My children attend Sidwell. While the cost is high ($55,000), Sidwell does not nickel and dime you. Outside of books, that cost is pretty all-inclusive (laptop, lunch, sports uniforms, yearbook, etc), unless your child elects to participate in special activities. Even the books have been fairly reasonable—about $300 to $500/year.

Sidwell is neither the best school nor the most expensive. Just recognize you have limited exposure to the full range of possibilities associated with this question and then STFU. Seriously. Your answer could not be more wrong or more pompous.

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Anonymous wrote:Our private school taught our kids how to capitalize and write in complete sentences.

That’s what you are getting for $60k
a year? My neighborhood Catholic school teaches that successfully in first grade and their students are crushing MAP scores.

Which DC Metro private schools charge $60k/year?!?

There are a few at 56 or so per year and when you add in the rest it is darn near 60.

Just say you’re wrong and move on.

My children attend Sidwell. While the cost is high ($55,000), Sidwell does not nickel and dime you. Outside of books, that cost is pretty all-inclusive (laptop, lunch, sports uniforms, yearbook, etc), unless your child elects to participate in special activities. Even the books have been fairly reasonable—about $300 to $500/year.

Sidwell is neither the best school nor the most expensive. Just recognize you have limited exposure to the full range of possibilities associated with this question and then STFU. Seriously. Your answer could not be more wrong or more pompous.

I've always been curious: how long exactly is your shift at the off-shore troll farm?

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Anonymous wrote:sounds like you're going, or considering going, for all the wrong reasons.

sorry, i forgot it's just like a country club for rich kids, hopefully they can get jobs for each other at their respective parent's companies.
except most parents in these places are striver upper middle class like lawyers and doctors.

To the people on here who constantly disrespect lawyers and doctors, you insecurities are hilarious.

I agree. This mentality is disgusting. We have tens of millions of dollars from finance. It’s not like anybody is saving lives over here. I have far more respect for doctors than some finance bro or big law partner who happened to make money and probably have much less integrity.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you assume they are not indoctrinated with Marxist propaganda at public school?

Oh they definitely are. Signed, a public school teacher

A decent teacher--or a decent DCUM poster--would know the difference between Marxism and more general leftist thought. You people are ridiculous.