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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone who’s been on the scene for a long time share insights? I’m curious if public schools eventually try to replicate some private school trends, or if the populations/ goals are too different.

Specifically, I’m thinking of [b]more free play/ less academics in the early years[/b], less tech, fewer APs, etc? My children’s public school seems to increasingly emulate the local privates in their fundraising style, extra programs like gardening, SEL, etc. [/quote]

What public schools do this? They all seem to assign homework starting from kindergarten.

BTW, the only reason why private schools can get away with less academics in the early years is because they have selective admissions and tacitly rely on parents to do the academic work at home with their kids even if it's not formally assigned. Private schools prefer to admit students whose Type A parents do a lot of supplementing at home. Then you, naive person, think, wow this private school is churning out lots of smart kids it must be an amazing school. But no, it's just the students' parents doing all the work at home.

Public schools cannot be selective, they have to educate tons of dummies and kids with parents who are dumb. Hence all the homework.[/quote]

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