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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are strongly considering putting our third kid in Catholic school for kindergarten next year. Two oldest are in MCPS and overall it has been okay, except that we regret not sending the oldest one to private HS (The public HS is [b]huge, overcrowded and counselors basically have barely anytime for any middle of the road kid[/b].). Our public ES and MS although “good schools” are also [b]overcrowded[/b]. We want a closer knit school community that a Catholic school could give our family due to a smaller size, and even though we don’t practice much Catholicism (I am Catholic, spouse isn’t) we wouldn’t mind child having that Catholic/God “connection” via the school. I guess we see more the value of that now than we did a few years ago.. However, I’m having major guilt about doing this differently this time around. I feel that I will miss the public school community and experience (school bus, classmates being neighbors etc) that our first two kiddos have had and feel bad that I will “rob” our third kiddo of the public school experience. Would love to hear others perspectives! We think child would likely thrive in any environment as a context.. [/quote]

We pulled our kids from public school (FCPS) a few years ago because we wanted well-behaved students and a classroom conducive to learning, fewer political distractions, and a better student-to-teacher ratio; [b]education is a priority for our family[/b] and that's where we spent most of our discretionary income. The smaller schools, tighter-knit social circle, and frankly, far less "problematic" students or "drama" has been a breath of fresh air. We could never go back to public school at this point.

Most of the kids in our neighborhood are still in public school. The kids still play together in the neighborhood; our kids also play organized sports, dance, etc. and still have their friends from those activities. We still go to the community pool and the kids play with other kids there just as well as they did before.

I do sometimes miss the convenience of sending the kids to the bus stop, but other than that, I miss nothing about the "public school experience."[/quote]

I really wish folks would stop saying the bolded in response to certain things.  As though people having kids in public school means education is not a priority.[/quote]

I agree with you 100% it's not a fair characterization or even true/representative of most in public.

But, the poster at 9:55 above could not have summed it up any better:

[i]We pulled our kids from public school (FCPS) a few years ago because we wanted well-behaved students and a classroom conducive to learning, fewer political distractions, and a better student-to-teacher ratio; education is a priority for our family and that's where we spent most of our discretionary income. The smaller schools, tighter-knit social circle, and frankly, far less "problematic" students or "drama" has been a breath of fresh air.[/i]

This is exactly us.  We're in MoCo.  I don't think the teachers were bad but the number of problematic students and drama were too much of an obstacle for the teachers to be effective.  Just not an issue at our Catholic.  That is not too say that all the kids are perfect and there are aren't occasional issues, there are, but not at the persistent day in and day out that drags down everyone.

Some publics will be better than others but that was not the case for us so we're private and not looking back at all.

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