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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Agree completely. My W&L senior has a friend who needs to attend college locally because she will be the guardian of her younger sister since the parents have to move back to their country of origin. She has friends who work PT, not so they can blow their earnings at Chipotle and Sephora, but because they contribute to their family income. Kids should have friends who don't all live in $2M houses and drive their Teslas to their $50K private school. [/quote]

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