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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public schools have become the bottom of the barrel.[/quote]

We intentionally bought a house near a school with a language immersion program because we wanted that opportunity for our kids. We love it, it has been great for DS. The kids tend to be well behaved and the program has been a gem. Class sizes started out large but are in the teens now because kids cannot enter after first grade unless they speak the language at home. DS is not going to be fluent in the language but he will end up a few years ahead of his peers and can knock out 2 years of high school language in MS and he has had far fewer behavior issues in his class.

The program is attractive to parents who are involved in their kids education because we all knew that we would need to reinforce with homework in order to make sure that all the material is being learned. Participation is an active choice. Love it.

Private schools work for families because Parents are choosing to make them work. They have a financial investment in their kids school. They have smaller classes because people are paying for smaller classes. There are fewer behavior issues because parents are paying to be at a school that doesn't allow poorly behaved kids entrance or removes them from the school if the behavior is too out of control.

Public schools still work for a lot of people but parents need to be invested in their kids learning. You are not able to just send your kids to school and forget about it. Public schools don't have those choices so Parents have to be involved and have to be willing to do some extra work at home. If you are expecting to simply send your kid to a Public School and they will learn, you are going to be disappointed. But I would say the same thing for most private schools. Then again, parents at private schools are financially invested so the parents are more likely to make sure that their child is doing what they need to do in order to make that investment pay off.

The problem with Public Schools is too many parents are checked out and their kids know it. The kids that are not behaving at school are not behaving at home. The Teachers know it and the admin know it. That kid who is melting down in class and causes everyone to evacuate the class? They are doing that at home. The parents are either desperate to get the kid into a special program to help and the process is getting int he way or the parents refuse to see a problem and are fighting the school. The parents who want to avoid that crap look for the special programs, the magnet schools, LI programs, or AAP in FCPS. Because they want their kids to learn and they want to avoid those issues as much as possible. [/quote]

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