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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are bunch of drama queens on this thread.

Public schools are not unilaterally in shambles people, come on. Ask any parent or kid at a higher achieving school in MCPS or FCPS or at Walls or similar and you will see: high achieving kids anywhere have similar outcomes. Account for wealth and SES, even more so.

The PP touting a 30% ivy admit rate would find that a similar demographic of kids at NCS and Churchill, or Bullis and Whitman, are going to have very similar outcomes.

Public schools are great for some kids, and the more people who send their kids to public school the stronger our schools are for it as a public good. That said, opting out for private schools is better for some kids and I don't wholly begrudge that, but you are being dishonest if you think that private schools aren't part of a larger societal problem, or that school shootings can only happen in public schools.

Do what is best for your family. But you're ignorant and short-sighted if you think private school alone is going to get your kid into Yale, or if you think dumb kids from public school took your kid's spot, or if you think all public schools are bad and all private schools are better. Be a little more honest and rigorous in your analysis. [/quote]

[b]Genuine question - how are privates a part of a larger societal problem?[/b]

Using Fairfax County as example, there are nearly 100 private schools with over 20,000 students enrolled. The average cost to educate a student in FCPS is $19,750. If we got rid of privates, these +20K students would cost FCPS another $400M and that doesn’t include cost of building additional classrooms. These private school families are already paying property and state income taxes that fund the public schools so, you can’t expect them to pay more. If anything, they are freeing up resources for public schools students. [/quote]

I think you know but if you genuinely don't, I can explain.

The majority of parents who choose private school are weathier, and relatedly, value education. Basically all of the high-risk, low-SES, underperforming kids in the country attend public schools. Opting out of public school makes public schools lose resources, affects the demographics of a school or system, and perpetuates a growing divide. It's a classic example of valuing individuals over communities, which we would probably ALL do, but it's not good for society. To. be fair, moving to a "good school district" which almost always has higher priced housing is the same concept. We made this choice, so I am not attacking anyone. But all of us are smart enough to recognize that these things create problems, specifically for disadvantaged black and brown kids at scale. [/quote]

How does opting out of public deprive public of their resources? Had we stayed, we would have consumed the limited resources at our. Since we don’t have school vouchers, we’re not taking the taxes that we paid for our child’s education with us to private.

I don’t buy your argument on valuing the individual over community. We’re choosing to be with a different community. We’re not homeschooling or hiring private instructors, we’re sending her to a different school. Our responsibility is to make sure our child receives the best educational experience we can provide her. [b]If every family did the same, we wouldn’t have the problems we do in public schools[/b]. [/quote]

Objectively speaking, the fact that public schools try to provide the best education experience to all students vs the amount of funding and supports they have is a huge part of the problems in public schools.  Someone earlier listed the average pp cost as something like $19k. But that cost also accounts for significant things that many private schools don't have or cover.  For example, More expansive Special Needs, Transportation, Meals, ESL, etc.  Public schools have problems because they lack the actual funding/resources (buildings, people, external resources) to support its required mission of educating all students.[/quote]

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