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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Went from Jamestown/Williamsburg to a Big 3 private for high school. Wasn't behind at all - in fact, was probably ahead in math and Spanish. [/quote]

How much writing did your child actually do in APS?  This is where my sense is that APS falls behind Big3.  I mean, I believe that APS teachers are on par with the best private school teachers around here; the compensation makes it so.  But APS teacher still have bigger classes and, particularly in MS, exponentially greater # of students.  So, if a teacher in APS assigns a five page paper in MS, they will have (best case scenario) five pagers per 20 students per five periods equals 1,000 pages to review.  They cannot possibly give real editing feedback or teach children the iterative process of writing/editing/revising.  A private school teacher has the luxury of maybe 1/3 (or much less) number of pages.  They can give detailed feedback.  Not all do of course.  Many are terrible. And you could win the lottery of teachers in APS so there is no right answer.  On the other hand, you are giving up a ton in my view when you pull for private and almost always it’s the wrong call and based more on parents neediness than child’s actual development.  [/quote]

For our average student, they had zero assigned novels in middle school, just excerpts handed out or “pick your own reading — hello graphic novels”.  We switched to private in 7th, and we have about 4 assigned novels with reports due end of each quarter [/quote]

Definitely not the experience my DD had. She had assigned novels and reports due. She went to Swanson. [/quote]

What grade? We didn’t have any at Hamm for 6th. [/quote]

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