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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 our local elementary principal wasn't exactly begging us to come to her public 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]

Nope - MCPS and school has already been expanded recently - no way they would expand it again any time soon...

Like I say - prinicipal was nowhere close to feeling like there was a flight from her school that was causing any issues.  She has plenty of good testers at her school.  Told us we probably wouldn't get what we needed by choosing public K.

This is very different from DC situation you refer to above - and I totally understand where you are coming from - as my own public elementary was very similar to what you describe.  But I have to say - a small group of us were accomodated academically (with extra challenge) in a way that seems to be no longer done in schools these days.  As long as you are doing good - they don't seem to worry about whether you are challenged because your "test score" is already good and focus needs to be on those whose scores are not good.  It used to be you could focus attention on the different groups of kids to get what they need and not have resources all depend on the school's mean score on a standardized test.  Too bad - I think that hurts everyone.

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