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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience (I've send kids to both public and private), the quality of education is much better at private.

The teachers are more qualified and have more freedom. The head of school is more invested in making teachers happy. The kids are expected to behave more civilized and less like wild barbarians. Kindness, compassion, respect was taught at my kids private but never at our public so the kids were unruly and bratty.

From chapel in the morning to head of school walking around, you get the feeling that the instructors care about your child. At public school they were a number and they felt it. [/quote]

+1 That's exactly what my son said after leaving MCPS. "I was just a number there." [/quote]

Uh!

I am going to be sending my kids to private school, it's going to be one of those incremental improvements since FCPS already has some great schools and teachers. It's not an expense we would incur if we had to stretch or sacrifice to do it.

The above quoted posts are what I worry about: another generation of snowflakes who think they are unique and special. In the larger scheme of things, all kids are just a number. If they don't learn this in school, they'll learn it in college, and certainly they will learn it in the work place and other areas of life. It's the one aspect of private school that I am worried about, that the kids are too cuddled to be independent, and too confident to realize that their ideas are usually unoriginal and misinformed, and that accomplishments are the result of practice and hard work. [/quote]

Ditto.  I went to a public school in one of those states all of DCUM makes relentless fun of, AND I not only graduated early from college,
I graduated early from a top 20 college.  the argument is not holding water for me.  As for the "specials" argument, one of the reasons we
Send out kids to public is so we can spend money on Top quality instruction in whatever "special" our kids want. Compare the money you spend on tuition to the sum total of all our lessons and sports and art classes and our way is significantly cheaper and (in our mind) the institution is better. With the money we save we could have a personal Spanish tutor five days a week.  [/quote]

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