Paying 32K and my DD's teacher has NO idea what she's doing

[Anonymous]

NO SCHOOL can compare to TJ and Blair

HOHOHO!!

[Anonymous]

... and we're off, for round 834 of public school parents saying private schools stink!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all,

If you are looking for a great school where the head and assistant head of DOCTORATES in education and the tuition is HALF what you pay(ed), take a look at Christ Episcopal School in Rockville. They have been doing amazing things for their students including a ground breaking curriculum delivery system called LIFT they created with Johns Hopkins University. I mean, Johns Hopkins working with a school and the tuition is just 16K? Give me a break.

They don't have the beautiful fields and state-of-the-art observatory that wow a lot of parents and convince them that the tuition is worth it...what they do have is skilled, master teachers from Preschool - grade 8 and ALL of the students matriculate to top high schools like Georgetown Prep, Visitation, Maret, NCS, St. Albans just to name a few...I name these because these seem to be the schools everyone is stuck on.

Another point, why does everyone assume the highest priced school is the best? It's simply not true.

1) Doctorates from where? Divinity school?

2) Christ Episcopal doesn't have a pedigree. The reason people pay twice as much for other privates is name recognition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:... and we're off, for round 834 of public school parents saying private schools stink!

+1 What else can they say? Also "there is a big drug problem at x school that I couldn't afford/didn't get into"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Public school students fare better in college admissions than private students in DC area

Hahahahahahahahahahahah

Grow up. And I might have to agree with her/him. After all the fuss, these private school admissions are not at all impressive. NO SCHOOL can compare to TJ and Blair.

While it is certainly true that no school can compare to TJ and Blair for a certain kind of kid (driven, healthy self esteem, wicked smart), most kids would be eaten alive there by the kids that are meant to be there. Most of us don't have the next Bill Gates for our son, so we have to find something suitable for them. That is harder to do in the public system.

[Anonymous]

Bill Gates did not go to public school. Oddly, his parents chose private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bill Gates did not go to public school. Oddly, his parents chose private.

MOST of the IT success folks went to public school.
BTW, BG dropped out of college, maybe because he was poorly prepared?

[Anonymous]

I believe BG dropped out of college because he was bored with class work and wanted to create computers ... Turned out to be a good call.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:... and we're off, for round 834 of public school parents saying private schools stink!

+1 What else can they say? Also "there is a big drug problem at x school that I couldn't afford/didn't get into"

You guys totally play a part in the arms race when you clip off the relevant part of that PP's post and just leave the part about TJ/Blair. That PP was responding to a question about EXMISSIONS from these schools. FWIW, I think she's right about EXMISSIONS from TJ and Blair being fantastic. 22:34 is the sleazeball who tried to turn that post into a more general public-private fistfight. Here, let me help you by reposting the original post, before 22:34 butchered it:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Public school students fare better in college admissions than private students in DC area

Hahahahahahahahahahahah

Grow up. And I might have to agree with her/him. After all the fuss, these private school admissions are not at all impressive. NO SCHOOL can compare to TJ and Blair.

Grow up indeed, 22:34.

[Anonymous]

I'm not 22:34. But how is it less offensive when you add the "private school admissions are not at all impressive" comment? That seems to make it even more combative.

[Anonymous]

I'm rolling my eyes at the behavior on this thread. Which private schools are lucky enough to host you guys? 22:34, would you care to name your school?

9:06, you seem like a rare note of reason. I hope our kids are in the same school.

[Anonymous]

You do not have to go to a private school to read a statistic. Private beats public in college admissions -- across the board. Only 60% of public school grads even apply to or go to college. Of those, you have 1-3% at top 25. At private 90% go to college. It goes on from there.
Blair LOL, my housekeepers daughter declined that one and placed into Whitman!

[Anonymous]

22:34 here: Blair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22:34 here: Blair

No really, which private school are you affiliated with?

Given that you've already demonstrated you lie like a bed, we're going to figure you're lying again. It's obvious you wouldn't have butchered 22:21's post in a way that makes Blair-TJ parents look bad, if you're actually a Blair parent yourself. C'mon, tell us which lucky private has you in its parent body?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do not have to go to a private school to read a statistic. Private beats public in college admissions -- across the board. Only 60% of public school grads even apply to or go to college. Of those, you have 1-3% at top 25. At private 90% go to college. It goes on from there.
Blair LOL, my housekeepers daughter declined that one and placed into Whitman!

Poor you. It helps to go take a statistics class to understand statistics, whether at a private or public high school or a private or public university. Not to start too much of a tangent, but the correct comparison is not the kid going off to be a plumber's apprentice vs. your basic Sidwell kid with two lawyer parents. The correct comparison is between outcomes for two otherwise identical kids, or outcomes for the same kid at two different schools. Iff exmissions is my only goal (a big iff), would my DD get into a better college from a private or public school, also it matters a whole lot which private school (St. A's?) and public school (Blair magnet?) you are comparing.