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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More/better/earlier arts, science, PE/outdoor time, foreign language.  No standardized testing or grading, lots of writing, kid sets the level of challenge with small enough classes that teachers can provide real support.  Continuity of "specials" teachers.  More curricular freedom, which has lots of implications -- e.g. pace can change if a particular class needs more or less time on a unit, teachers are empowered and encouraged to be lifelong learners themselves, there's space for more ambitious projects.  Also a fair amount of emphasis on and experiences designed to make kids comfortable presenting their ideas in public.  A sense that education is about discovery and rather than transmission/reception/retention of what's already known.[/quote]

Bingo!  We chose private over JKLM even though we have to make many sacrifices (vacations, new cars, etc.).[/quote]

good for you, but that does not give you moral superiority.[/quote]

I don't think she claimed it did.   I read her comment as indicating that she made the choice she did based on educational issues rather than because she has more money than brains or because she was hoping to impress people at the country club or to hang out with people who carried the right kind of handbags (which have been the sort of concerns that posters critical of private schools have attributed to parents who chose not to send their kids to their neighborhood DCPS school).[/quote]

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