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[quote=Anonymous]I have 1 child that was happy in a highly rated DCPS but struggled during the pandemic so we switched them to private in person school.  I was committed to the public, never researched privates before, and was honestly shocked at how much better the private was.  So it’s going to be hard to go back to public, but that’s so far the plan for middle school.

I’ve met a lot of private school lifers l would never have met if not for the pandemic.  As someone who was totally committed to public and comes from a LMC family, it’s been a major learning experience for me.  Most of these people would never consider public, they’ve been paying for private school since their kids were 18 months or 3 years old.  Since they’re having bigger families now these lifers will be even more dominant in the privates.

Some theories and predictions.  Private school admission is so much more competitive now and that will continue, due to the pandemic and after effects that will continue in public schools for years ( teacher burn out, quitting, no failing grades etc) and the lifer larger families trend.  The competition will cause more families that are unable to get in to private for middle / high school only to stay in public.  This will increase the quality of the public schools that traditionally are high private feeders (say Deal for example), as high stats high resource (but not high enough to be private school lifer) families stay in public.  Expect even fiercer competition for application publics like SWW.

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