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Reply to "If you can afford it why wouldn’t you switch your kids to private with all the terrible things going on"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People vastly underestimate the social and emotional benefits of going to school with kids in their neighborhood/community. The value of going to school with the same cohort over the years (especially in large schools where you have many options for friend groups) is enormous. Private school kids may get a better education but many of them don't have the rich community that public school kids do. There's very little running to neighbors' houses and hanging out, biking together, spending long stretches together wandering through the neighborhood. In my Bethesda neighborhood, very few of the private school kids have this, or just with or or two kids. The kids in MCPS have been together since they were in elementary school and have strong social bonds. Having a pack of friends from childhood through high school is a strong source of emotional health and stability and there is a huge amount of research on this. It's also what makes childhood and adolescence special. I don't see this with private school kids anywhere near as close as it with local publics. [/quote] We are only staying for the social and community benefits as well. After a certain point you are kind of locked in and there's a cost (in addition to financial) to leaving. When kids have been together for years they lose their community by moving to a private. [/quote]
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