If You've Had Kids in Private and Public, Which Did You Like Better?

[Anonymous]

Private, hands down. We've had kids in public and private and there really is no comparison whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think if the child has educated parents, the benefits of private really start in middle school. That's when we moved our kids to private. Before that, if there are any deficiencies, they can usually be made up at home.

I disagree. IME private has afforded my child with critical social/emotional learning opportnities in the early grades that publics don't have the luxury to provide since they must obsess from day one of K about performance on standardized tests.

I think that parents who have not had a child in public school may overestimate the effect of this. Here is a list of all of the standardized tests that children take in MCPS in K-2:

Maryland Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (once, at the beginning of kindergarten)
MAP-P (three times a year, in K-2)

That's it.

More about the Maryland Kindergarten Readiness Assessment: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/marylands-kindergartners-face-important-early-test-of-their-readiness-for-school/2014/10/31/62a11caa-60fd-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html

No. They spend SO much time preparing for them, practicing, and the kids absorb the stress from the teachers.

The MCPS elementary school testing calendar: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/calendar/estesting.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No. They spend SO much time preparing for them, practicing, and the kids absorb the stress from the teachers.

They spend so much time preparing and practicing for the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment and the MAP-P tests three times a year? I don't have any experience with the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment, which was new this year, but in my experience with the MAP-P tests, the kids spend no time preparing or practicing for them.