Private School
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Anonymous
Nah, have you seen what the government is doing to the education system?! |
Anonymous
The government thinks kids are better in white Christian schools. The publics are for the leftovers. |
Anonymous
+1 Send you don't want to be part of the mass exodus from public to private. It will be very hard to get a spot. |
Anonymous
Screens Sugar Bed times Food dyes Organic food Having a SAHP (or mom) Outsourcing childcare And much much more ....bus most importantly let's use it to judge women. |
Anonymous
Nope, you'd be creating a different environment for them to be a product of and that will come with a different set of challenges. |
Anonymous
The federal government actually has very little control over what is happening at the local level. If they stop the fed funds, there will be a scramble, but they are not the only player in the room by a long shot. |
Anonymous
The cream rises to the top. Our HS is 40% Farms/Low income but the bright ambitious kids all congregate together and challenge themselves. They get mostly 5's on their numerous APs and send tons of kids to excellent colleges every year. Private school might be a better choice if your child is lazy and unambitious and likely to fall in with the wrong crowd. But the smart, focuses kids do very well in public schools. |
Anonymous
They’re not going to stop the fed funds for education. They want to block fund but ironically want more control over what is taught and are asking the Dept of Ed to do exactly that. They want red states to do as they please but control over the blue states. I think curriculum nationwide will change. |
Anonymous
I work for LCPS and the feds have very little control over what goes on in the classroom. It’s actually the community that makes the demands that bring up the standard. Parents in loudoun are a gigantic PITA, but they do advocate for their kids. This even varies school to school. The more savage the Karen the more resources their student population gets. I personally have been very happy with public schools. My oldest is 2nd year UVA and had made the deans list every semester and came into college very very well prepared for the rigors. |
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I find American public schools to be very interesting. We migrated here from a very poor African country when I was in 8th grade. It was shocking how advanced my math and science skills were. And I attended a very crowded public school back in my country. I had already completed both sequences of algebra and geometry by the time I finished 7th grade in my country. So I was able to take pre-calc in 9th grade and I was considered advance at my high school.
Now I can understand why parents would want to send their kids to private school. Of course my school district could have been a bad one. |
Anonymous
i tried moving my kid to private during covid and they actually could not meet his math demands or his foreign language demands. we would have had to pay extra to get him college classes for German and Math. He went up to German 6 in high school and cslc1-3, and linear algebra. He’s at MIT now. |
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Don’t get me started. I’m from a former Soviet country.
My school was very austere - no smart boards, no colourful, fun materials, no playgrounds, no fancy equipment. Blackboard and chalk. My education was far better than DC’s education in a well funded school. It’s not about money. It’s about lack of education culture at home, teachers are crappy at teaching, parents not holding kids accountable and setting the bar low to the weakest kids. No child left behind was started by Republicans. Now everyone is behind. Trump loves the uneducated, he said. His favorite people. |
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Even posters here are illiterate - “illegal boarder”. We wrote essays starting from elementary school.
We analyzed art and wrote essays about paintings. We read classical literature and wrote essays about it starting middle school. We didn’t have advanced math tracks, but my math classes were so good that I did a placement test fifteen years later at US university and scored high to get into CS program. In my kid’s 8th grade half students thought multiplication precedes division in order of operations. We had blueprint drawing classes that required highest precision and skill. My DC’s school had to hold a special class in 10th grade to teach how to use a ruler and protractor - future Republicans, I’m sure. All this was a poor and average Soviet school. And to add, I did not see a single fight in school the entire time I was there. In public school in America I’m paying outrageous amounts of money to tutors in almost all core subjects so that my kid will have an education close to what I received for free in a public school. |
Anonymous
| We are on a waiting list for a top DMV private. If enough people pull their kids out, will they admit us during the academic year, or do they typically wait until the next full year to accept off the wait list? Thank you!! |
Anonymous
| Private school is a luxury not a necessity. |