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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have twins --one at DCPS and one who left for a Big3 school in 7th per the child's request (2 years ago).  I'd estimate that the public school kid is learning 20% of what the Big3 kid is learning.
The was pre-pandemic and during the pandemic.    
My public school kid is getting high As in all classes and is taking the hardest math the school offers (Algebra 2 in 8th grade).  She/he does debate and Model UN and 
every academic extracurricular I can make him/her do.  However, she/he is skating through school with two 45 minutes classes per day and no school on Wednesdays.  
Meanwhile, the Big3 kid is working his/her tail off as usual.

I'm a huge public school advocate (I attended them and my 3 kids have attended them for a total of 28 years of instruction).  However, there the difference between 
learning between private and our public is insane.  I care nothing about prestige and we're not wealthy. 
I recognize that the public school kid will probably have better college admissions (which is crazy, given that he/she can barely write) but she/he will likely graduate 
with a perfect GPA (barely some sort of academic disaster) while the private school kid will end up with something well under 4.0 but with a far, far deeper and broader
understanding of history and literature and a well developed ability to write and reason.

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IN NYC area, same thing.  The top public schools (Specialized Schools) have changed their standards, and are allowing kids to make any course they want Pass/Fail, in addition to a much lighter homework load, less writing and so on. So GPAs are rising. My DC accepted to both Specialized, where many of their friends attend, which is how I know what's going on there, and top private (currently at top private). There has been no change in standards or workload at the top private; you can still get Cs and Ds. It is still really tough to get an A-. and they are still up writing papers until 1am or 2am. I am happy they are learning so much and have been in person. But I think that college admissions have been affected based on what we see so far in their class, with more Wait Lists than usual, given the supply of kids seems to have moved to everyone in the US gets an A, whereas their school profile is the same as it has always been, only top 25% get A- averages.[/quote]

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