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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have high resources, send your kid to private school. [/quote]

This.

Signed,

MCPS parent who went to a big three but can’t afford that for my own kids [/quote]

Do you feel like your own Big3 experience was worth it then? What was the benefit and ultimate impact?

I mean that as an honest question.[/quote]

Yes, it was worth it. I'm an attorney. Dual feds. 50k per year for high school tuition isn't in the cards for us, but I still feel like I am a reasonably successful person.

My kids seem to be getting good STEM educations, but they are not learning how to write anything other than AP exam essays. My youngest just finished eleventh grade. He has taken the highest level English classes available to him - all honors and AP. He has taken several AP history/government classes. Yet he had yet to write a single paper until June of this year. Their AP English teacher had them write a five or six page research paper after the AP exam was done. He had no clue how to go about doing so. He insisted it was getting along fine so I didn't helicopter. He got a C. Explained after the fact he just didn't understand how to write something longer than a page or two. My older kid is at a Catholic college with a bunch of kids who went to Catholic high schools. Did very poorly in freshman English.

No way would I put up with MCPS high school if I could afford private for them. Well, if I'd known how I'd feel, maybe I would have sacrificed home equity/college/retirement savings for private high school. Now it's too late. But if you have plenty of money? Private is no brainer.

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I could have written your post. Literally every single thing you just said. [/quote]

Me too. My kid did IB English this year (11th grade), only had to read two books for class over the entire year. I don’t think he’s had to write a paper longer than 2 pages. [/quote]

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