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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Me too!  Except I think, "I'm no longer worried that we turned down the top 3 for the MoCo magnet."[/quote]
Off topic: What is it that drives so many public school parents on DCUM to take unsolicited potshots at private schools?  Of course I know the bullets fly both directions, and I've seen plenty of private school parents here make obnoxious comments about public schools.  And when the public & private parents get into trading insults and brags, both sides get ugly.  But it really seems to me like there are a ton of unsolicited jabs at private schools from public school parents.  Hardly a day goes by on DCUM without some public school parent taking a shot.  Why is that?

I don't think public school parents are any meaner than private school parents.  And I don't think it's jealousy because they clearly don't like private schools.  So I can't understand what drive so many public school parents to start unprovoked fights.  I'm not trying to start a fight.  This is a serious (but perhaps naive) question.  Any ideas?

TIA[/quote]

I suspect that a lot of these private-bashing public school parents are scorned applicants who still look for any opportunity to grind their axes. I also suspect there are a fair number who feel guilty or inadequate about either a) not having the wherewithal to afford the tuition or b) being too cheap to pay it and are looking to publicly justify their relative positions in some cathartic way.  I would say these two segments account for the vast majority of snark. Those who are truly comfortable with sending their kids to public school would have no reason or impulse to respond one way or the other.  [/quote]

We were more than willing to try the elementary public school in our area. We even went to talk to the principal.  Our daughter has been extensively tested and with loads of outside coursework, etc.  The public school principal said the evaluation, etc. of our daughter (to mark her as 'gifted') would take a full year and that no additional services could be offered until the following year.  I just couldn't do that to the poor girl.  I think if she had to sit in a large class of students doing work that she'd done years ago, she'd go stark raving mad.  Made me sick just to think about it.  That's why we started looking at private schools.  We needed a school with lots of extra-options (music, instrumentation, foreign languages, etc.) that could keep my daughter engaged.  The class sizes had to be small, so that she could get the extra exchange and discussion (i.e. teacher-student time) that she would need.  We also would need scholarship aid.

The attitudes of the admissions officers at some of the schools we visited were surprising and sometimes even ugly.  One school told us that our daughter would have to do her math somewhere other than school.  Another school said that there was no way any student would ever be qualified to advance grades (instead of placement by age).   Other schools were very receptive.  The ones we liked the most and actually applied to were ones that said, "We'll let you know if we can do it."  Or, "Let's see what the fit will be."  It was a difficult process, but it looks like all has turned out well (so far).

Good luck, Everyone.[/quote]

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