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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today I visited a good public elementary school in DC. While I understand that kids in public high schools may have some behavioral issues, what I saw at the elementary level was that this public school is much better than my current private school.

To begin with, it has four different teachers specialized in math, science, social studies, and English. At our current private school, which is considered “elite,” the homeroom teacher teaches all of those subjects, and not especially well to begin with.

Yes, class sizes are slightly bigger in the public school, but are there really any meaningful benefits to a private elementary school? At least compared with our current private school, I could not see any major advantage.[/quote]

Private schools are very different from each other: you can't look at one private school and then declare that all private schools are not worthwhile. And, the public options that people have are also very different: a mediocre private may or may not be better than somebody's zoned public, depending on where they are.

FWIW, class size in our small private k-8 is half of class size in our local public, and classroom switching starts in 5th (math) and 6th (all classes) vs 7th for the local public. [/quote]

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