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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our experience in the Montgomery County Public Schools with three boys was what interested us in private schools. Once we took one boy out of the local public and sent him to a private high school, we were shocked by the difference and put the other two in privates at the first opportunity.

We found the public schools to be mindlessly-bureaucratic. The teachers behaved like the civil servants they are ... with a heavy overlay of political correctness. Aggressive parents jockeying for position gamed the system relentlessly. The schools were rife with "Edu-Speak" and resource teams and all sorts of nonsense driven by top-heavy bureaucracies. Montgomery County schools has thousands of employees who are not classroom teachers.

Private school for us was like a return to the world of the sane. Things were in perspective and were understandable.[/quote]

While your experience with public may not be great, I am not sure (though i guess ) what you mean by civil servants they are. We switched from private to public. We have found the teachers at our MCPS Middle school to be interesting, excited to be teaching, try to be creative and engaging while teaching and overall really care about the kids they are teaching. We have been at 5 different private schools. There has been a range of teachers, some fabulous and really care about their students, some horrific and never should be teaching kids. It is really  hard in private for a bad teacher to get fired especially if they have been there a while. Political correctness exists all over the place. Just take a look at the calendars of most private schools to see that. many private schools have not moved into the digital age. Grades are not posted on line, nothing posted regarding assignments, inability to do classwork on line.

Just look at all the private schools still using Every day Math.  Aggressive parents? Have you ever attended a sports game at any of the many privates that have competitive sports team. Ever seen the jockeying to get into AP classes or honor classes? Privates and Public both have positives and negatives. Depends on the kid and the school as to which will work well. Not all privates are equal. There are better teachers and better academics at some schools than MCPS and MCPS has better academics and teachers than other schools. You just need to find the best fit. But to insult a whole body of mostly hard working caring teachers is just not necessary.

I am not a teacher. Just hate to see the bashing.[/quote]

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