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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on which private school, but I think the poster’s point is a valid one…especially when it comes to elementary school. Public school at the elementary level is generally better, but too many folks balk at the very thought of doing public school and want to jump on the private school pipeline in the early stages…and many find out too late that it’s at their detriment. [/quote]

In FCPS public school at the elementary level is entirely lacking in grammar instruction (except some random on-a-screen stuff from Lexia), the "knowledge based curriculum" for upper grades ELA is not that great and my older kids suffered years of Lucy Calkins before they went to the current curriculum, homework and classwork as actually having to fill out PowerPoints is given by some teachers to some kids as young as the primary grades, handwriting instruction is uneven at best and lacking at worst. Science is life cycles and kids doing presentations to teach actual content standards to other kids, not direct instruction.

The math is decent, especially with a good teacher.

Our middle of the road private corrects those deficits and has better-than-gen-ed, slightly-worse-than-AAP math.

High school is where it won't be able to compete.[/quote]

Not in FCPS but you're describing our public school elementary experience exactly and why we switched to a no frills parochial, despite the lack of flashy science labs and sport fields that PPs describe. IMO knowledge based curriculum is good, thinking about math in different ways is good, and social-emotional learning is good... but ON TOP OF foundational knowledge. Not INSTEAD OF.

For high school we intend to go public, but wish we didn't have to given how cutthroat it can be at a large public. Middle school starts a year from now and we are still uncommitted! We can stay at the parochial or switch to the public middle. [/quote]

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