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Reply to "My impression on Mont Co public v. private school"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree private are generally better than public for kids in elementary and middle schools. However, I think the top private schools (Sidwell, NCS, St Albans, GDS, Maret, Holton Arms, etc.) generally have higher academic standards/expections in high school than most of the public high school in this area; they are probably more similar (in terms of academic achievement) to the Magnet programs (such as Blair, Richard Montgomery, Thomas Jefferson).[/quote] I would put the magnet programs at the top of the heap - that's just an impression. I will buck the trend and say that publics offer a solid education in elementary, which does a good job covering basics like grammar, etc - sometimes more than privates do. I think that privates really earn their keep in middle school, when they ramp up the level of challenge and prepare students well for high school. [/quote]
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