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If you're expecting public school parents to be grateful to you for sending your child to private school, you will probably be disappointed.
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Well - I can tell you that [b]our local elementary principal wasn't exactly begging us to come to her public[/b] when we went to discuss our child with her in Pre-K (done because pre-K teachers recommended we do sos).  In fact, she recommended we stay for the K option at the Pre-K school because she said it would most likely be a better option four our child.  This was not a "problem child" so she wasn't trying to avoid difficulty among her student body - in fact, she discussed "problem children" as being part of the reason why our child would not be served as well in K at her school as the child would be at the private (note- this is a very very highly regarded public elemenatry).  So - don't think that the local principals are dying for all the private school kids to enroll.

Also note - that I would vote for any increases in school budgets and support for teachers.

AND - good luck getting budgets to grow for more schools and more resources when the tax base remains the same.  If all the private kids went public - they'd have to raise taxes if you wanted the outcome you are suggesting....[/quote]

Is your local elementary school in DC? There is plenty of capacity at the non-very very highly regarded public elementaries in DCPS. So much capacity, in fact, that DCPS has been closing schools.

If you are in DC, then the solution to the overcrowding at your local elementary is rezoning. But rezoning is a political impossibility. And even if it weren't, the parents who were rezoned from the very very highly regarded public elementary to one of the other ones would probably pull their kids and put them in private, or move.

(And yes, they might have to raise taxes. That happens. I would support it. You say that you would too.)[/quote]

We had the opposite experience in our MCPS high school. The principal was very helpful and encouraging because they like kids who are coming in from the good private schools. My DC has contributed quite positively to the average SAT score and the number of APs taken with high scores. And our school has grown quite a bit in the last few years with an influx of kids from private schools and done just fine. The school is allocated more resources when the number of students goes up. Obviously long term this will increase our taxes but so be it.[/quote]

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