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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a huge advocate for free public education. I think quality education should be accessible to all regardless of income level. In MCPS, my children will attend public school. That said, we lived previously in an area where there was only one high school with nearly 8,000 students. Gang issues were pervasive. For the safety of my own children, I would have opted for private.

MCPS’ schools have their own issues but so do private schools. On the whole, you can get a really strong education and [b]often better what private schools offer[/b].[/quote]

You kid yourself. [/quote]

Sure. My 20 years of experience across school districts and private schools MUST be wrong.

Standards are higher in the private schools I’m affiliated with. I went 5 years without observations in public school. I’m observed 8 times a year now and I have to justify my curriculum choices to admin/curriculum advisors.

I was never asked for plans in public. I have to post my plans to parents and students each week now.

I’m sent to more trainings now, and they are actually useful, even to experienced teachers. In public, I sat through training for whatever the latest craze was, knowing it would be gone in a year anyway.

I am held accountable, and students are held accountable.

So yes, from my extensive experience I find private works far better for my own children and for my students. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is.

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Why would you go to a school that makes you justify your curriculum choices? No one wonder they hold you to a higher standard if no one is teaching the same thing.  [/quote]

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