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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have twins and one went to public one to private, both at Ivies now. The one who went to private is still pissed about how many extra curriculars their sibling was able to do while they did homework. Hindsight is 20/20 of course and the schools both worked for the individual kids, but homework can be  over rated. [/quote]

Sure, this is great if your child is spending 3 hours a night, all school year doing high-impact extracurriculars (in addition to sports because most privates also require kids to do sports 3 seasons a year).  The private school kids are still writing in the school newspaper, volunteering, completing internships, etc.  I have a hard time believing that the public school kids are doing extracurriculars to such an additional degree that their value replaces reading books, learning how to write, etc.

I've had kids in both DCPS and private high schools and in our experience the education is night and day.  It's not busy work--the kids are learning how to thinking deeply, write extremely well, etc.  By graduation they have churned out several hundred pages of essays and at least two 20-30 page papers. Will my public school kid be a failure in life?  No, but it's hard to argue that the private education is not leaps and bounds superior and this is supported in large part by homework. [/quote]

Public school products would be a lot more polished when they get to college if their work were evaluated honestly. I don’t think kids are getting much good feedback along the lines of “it’s ok but it could and should be better.” Homework is usually that channel, but it doesn’t need to be. [/quote]

yes, agree 100%.  What you get in private school is a lot of feedback. When the kids write a 2 page essay, the teacher may only have 20 of them to grade.   Then they pick them apart, line-by-line and give feedback.  Granted this means although 20 kids have turned in a completely grammatically correct essay, likely only or or two kids get an A because they're then graded on the nuances of their arguments etc.  So this is the downside of this type of grading. The upside is that the kids really learn.  
My son turned in a 20 page research paper in history last year and received back 2 pages of single spaced typed feedback from his teacher.  You could tell that the teacher spent hours mulling over what my son had written and then a good hour typing his response.  [/quote]

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