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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would I pay money for an inferior  product? Public schools dominate the math, science and tech necessary for tomorrow.[/quote]
I'm hardly in the "private is clearly better" crowd, but you have no proof for this statement.[/quote]
Just take a look at the Intel scholars  and any other math and science winners. The vast majority are from public schools. 
Here is this year intel/Regeneron scholars. Only one from a private school in the DC area.
https://student.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts-2018-scholars[/quote]

As many may have already stated (haven't read through the posts), unless your DC is extremely gifted or one who has a serious special need, he or she will likely fly under the radar in public school.  The majority of students do not have the ability to excel like those in the link, including my DS, who is very bright but not a superstar student.  His private school gives him the ability to shine in other ways, not to mention the smaller class sizes, religious education, and network for life.  These are things that can never be offered in a public school environment.[/quote]

Also forgot to mention one reason public school students are majority is a sheer numbers game.  You are pitting a much larger population against a very small group of students comparing public vs private.[/quote]

Agree.  I just looked at the list quickly  Not that many form TJ for all of the hoopla around that school (I saw 3, there may be more).  Compare that the the Harker School in San Jose (a private school).  It had more.  I also saw plenty of other private schools.  First, this is only one list and second, I think the maybe DC private schools do not focus as much on stem as, say, the Silicon Valley private schools. If you did a national comparison, comparing the relative numbers at those schools, I would imagine private stacks up nicely.[/quote]

Nope, private schools do not stack up nicely against public schools when it comes to math, science and technology. 
The Harker School  has 4, TJ has 7.
Some other privates have 1 or two, but the majority are from the public schools. Many from MD public schools : Blair (11), Centennial,  Poolesville,  Whitman,  Churchill etc..
It’s a known fact that public schools dominate the STEM field.

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Dp, if you are so interested in stem, you surely realize that to have a meaningful comparison, one would need to look at what percentage of the overall private school students population place at top competitions vs. what percentage of overall public school school student population.  Given that the demoninator for the later is so much larger, [b]the argument you are currently making is ridiculous[/b].[/quote]
There is nothing ridiculous about the fact that  public schools dominate the STEM field. 
There are a few private schools that are indeed great in STEM (Harker for example, none in the DC area ),but in general, public schools dominate. 
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STEM parents excel at rationalization.  [/quote]

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