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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DE isn’t as highly regarded as AP.

And class size matters A LOT. Public school student don’t get robust feedback on their writing assignments. Sometimes they get nothing at all. The teachers simply don’t have time to actually give meaningful feedback.[/quote]

Right, granted. But you can pay a fine writing tutor, say 5K a year. Last time I checked, that was legal in this country. And there's probably nothing stopping your from providing regular input on student writing assignments yourself. My spouse and I do this with our two APS HS students several times a week. I have a PhD in a humanities subject and my spouse is a senior govt attorney. Goodness, we might be as qualified to provide "robust feedback" as your kid's private school humanities teachers.

Unless you're both loaded and lazy, don't pay a private school 30-55K a year. Don't drop your kid into a peer group where most of the others are well-off, pampered[b] and white[/b] in a world where more than 80 percent of human beings are not. Don't raise absurdly sheltered teens.

Save your hard-earned dough to pay for college, retirement and whatever else. [/quote]

As I’ve explained to you before, your child is much more likely to be surrounded by white people at W&L and YHS than top DC privates due to housing segregation.  But, keep insisting your view of the world is correct.

And your nonsense idea that kids at W&L and YHS are less “sheltered” than my kid at a DC private is so questionable.  I see you Jeep driving white kid with your music blasting from country club hills.   That kid is really getting a dose of unsheltering forced to attend a “public” school with loads of kids from different backgrounds (hahahaha) at Yorktown.  Give me a break. 
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W-L is majority minority. You don't seem very familiar with it. [/quote]
It also has infinitely more socioeconomic diversity than any private school.  Lots and lots of WL students are in apartments, not country club hills.

My APS public school with >50% hispanic population has been sending out information about preparing for ICE raids after Trump issued an executive order lifting a ban on immigration enforcement in schools.  I'm pretty certain that fear has not entered your private school bubble.[/quote]

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