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.

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.

Being in a small classroom that is not stressful and is full of students who were selected to be there with a teacher who has time for each of you individually is a better experience and you also get a better education that way. Why is this hard to understand?

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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.

A better, safer, individualized educational experience EQUALS a better education.
Please try to keep up.

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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.

A better, safer, individualized educational experience EQUALS a better education.
Please try to keep up.

Actually it doesn’t. Please try to keep up.

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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.

A better, safer, individualized educational experience EQUALS a better education.
Please try to keep up.

Actually it doesn’t. Please try to keep up.

Again, why does every thread on this forum turn into a group of public school boosters arguing about why private school isn’t worth it? If you don’t want to pursue private school for your kids please feel free to stick with your public schools and head over to those forums to enjoy the debate there.

The topic at hand was private school college admissions, can we get back to that?

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Anonymous wrote:GDS 🔥😳🙀👀🥇🏆

GDS just added Dartmouth (multiple), BROWN!!!!, and UVA to the already jaw dropping list.
#GDSWins

If anyone from our school acted like this poster who is all over the college board too, we would definitely be hearing from the Headmaster about humility and thinking of other students in the class.

The more this poster posts, it just reinforces every negative stereotype I had about GDS parents.

I am a GDS parent and I agree. Also I think this obnoxious poster is a troll. No real GDS parents that I know talk or act this way. It's embarrassing and the list is not "jaw dropping". They did well but they also did well two years ago. Last year wasn't as strong. Many local schools did well this year also.

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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.

A better, safer, individualized educational experience EQUALS a better education.
Please try to keep up.

Actually it doesn’t. Please try to keep up.

It does.

I’m already ahead…because I received a private school education. Clearly, you cannot say the same.

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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.

You know nothing. MCPS kids run circles around private schools kids everytime.

They won’t have the social or business network though that these private schools kids have. Trust me. Parents invested hundreds of thousands into education and they are making sure these connections carry on. Can’t compare the culture or communities.

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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.

Umm, they match up to privates talked about here.

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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.

Quantify many many. What do mean by that?

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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.

Umm, they match up to privates talked about here.

No they don’t. Calculate the percentage of Sidwell students heading to Ivies and other top 25 colleges. Then compare that to the percentages of any W school. It doesn’t match up.

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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.

You know nothing. MCPS kids run circles around private schools kids everytime.

They won’t have the social or business network though that these private schools kids have. Trust me. Parents invested hundreds of thousands into education and they are making sure these connections carry on. Can’t compare the culture or communities.

Why do people keep perpetuating this myth. It’s HS not college or grad school. Families with money likely already had/have connections even without private school. Where folks go to HS doesn’t come up often in business circles and only in social circles once folks get into deeper conversation. Further a bunch of said MCPs kids that you are talking about have families with government and business connections. They are not all paupers. In fact, several of the students at a given private HS have siblings in public.

Let’s stop this childish private/public debate. It’s a ridiculous comparison especially considering where folks end up in life.

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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.

A better, safer, individualized educational experience EQUALS a better education.
Please try to keep up.

Most private schools are not providing an individualized education experience. They have a set curriculum and offer some specific elective/special classes. Teachers are not creating lesson plans and content for each student needs and desires. This is not homeschooling. It’s merely a specifically selected group of students and a smaller number of students. And parents are selecting which school they think is the best fit for their kid. That’s it. As someone already said, it’s an experience not necessarily a better education.

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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.

Quantify many many. What do mean by that?

Difficult to quantify, but based on what I have heard among my friend group in our Churchill district and what I have read on the MCPS forum, kids are struggling in college and have to learn how to study. If I had to throw a number out there, I would say probably 75%...maybe more. Most will get through it with hard work and tutors, but the independent school students who actually had to be accountable during HS will find college much easier.

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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.

A better, safer, individualized educational experience EQUALS a better education.
Please try to keep up.

Most private schools are not providing an individualized education experience. They have a set curriculum and offer some specific elective/special classes. Teachers are not creating lesson plans and content for each student needs and desires. This is not homeschooling. It’s merely a specifically selected group of students and a smaller number of students. And parents are selecting which school they think is the best fit for their kid. That’s it. As someone already said, it’s an experience not necessarily a better education.

Well I would say the experience of being held accountable for work is a better education. Teachers in public schools are letting students slide due to pressure to boost graduation rates. It is horrendous.

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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.

You know nothing. MCPS kids run circles around private schools kids everytime.

They won’t have the social or business network though that these private schools kids have. Trust me. Parents invested hundreds of thousands into education and they are making sure these connections carry on. Can’t compare the culture or communities.

Why do people keep perpetuating this myth. It’s HS not college or grad school. Families with money likely already had/have connections even without private school. Where folks go to HS doesn’t come up often in business circles and only in social circles once folks get into deeper conversation. Further a bunch of said MCPs kids that you are talking about have families with government and business connections. They are not all paupers. In fact, several of the students at a given private HS have siblings in public.

Let’s stop this childish private/public debate. It’s a ridiculous comparison especially considering where folks end up in life.

Every year Gonzaga College High School holds a Business Network Career Fair. These are the types of connections that public schools kids are locked out of. https://www.gonzaga.org/alumni/gonzaga-business-network#