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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child struggles for any reason (academically, socially, behaviorally, etc), I think that there is an advantage to go private, even for the elementary years.[/quote]

Yes there are private schools for problem children ("I'm sending you to military school if you don't shape up") and there is a whole DC bar to get DCPS to pay for the Lab School. But, I think when most people think of private, they are thinking of the elite schools, not the church basements, segregation academies, or special needs schools. In NY, LA, Chicago, and DC, elite private schools are to good suburban public schools (not including STEM magnets) as Stanford is to Cal State Riverside or Harvard is to UMass.  Nothing shoddy about Cal State or UMass (or UVA or College Park), but you can't compare the resources or student body to the Ivies. No child who is "struggling" is getting in to Harvard-Westlake in LA or University of Chicago Lab School or NYC's Horace Mann/Dalton/Collegiate/Trinity.  These may not be the best places for strivers to the middle class, but they are pretty awesome if your child seeks to be enter or stay in the elite.  [/quote]

Many SN kids can handle the "elite" work, just not in the public school setting.

They are not "military school" or "basement church" schools.

The question is why would poor people make the sacrifice and the answer is because the kids are not successful in big schools with inattentive staff.

Hate to break it to you dyslexic kids go to Ivy schools.[/quote]

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