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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But vouchers historically don't actually help anyone go to private school. If vouchers are for $5000, the price of tuition at the private schools goes up nearly $5000. It's just padding the profits for private, often religious based schools.

Private schools are also allowed to deny admission as they see fit. Your child with behavioral issues or learning disabilities that isn't thriving in public school isnt going to get into private and now they're going to be stuck in underfunded public schools with all of the other kids whose parents couldn't afford to send them to private or couldn't get in because of their own behavioral or learning issues.

Private schools have "better results" because they are selective over who they admit. If you can't test well and are going to bring their numbers down, you're dropped from the program. Sure, having a cohort of other intelligent kids can motivate many kids to do better but there is no private school magic that makes the learning better other than exclusion of everyone who would hold their scores back. [/quote]

My kid is high performing without any known learning disability/issues. And we can relatively easily afford private school, even the ones that rival college tuition.

I never thought in a million years that I’d consider private school. I was a public school kid and believe in the value of that system. I believe that teachers should be paid a lot more than they are.

But when the school board actively goes after my families and my neighbors because we are in a certain neighborhood and they use our kids as their resources to deploy to try to help other kids, that’s the point I say “no thanks.”

And it’s because of that betrayal that I would reluctantly become an opponent of the public school system that I have always supported. I guess in a way this will become my villain backstory.[/quote]

So glad you have the option to send your kid to that private school. I am sure the fcps teachers at your assigned school won’t notice you changes schools. Isn’t it great we live in a free country?[/quote]

Let’s ask the Arizona school system how that worked out for them.

You should be careful if you are looking to push UMC out of the school system. Might backfire. But maybe you didn’t get a chance to read that article?[/quote]

I am the PP. So m, we sent our kids to a private religious school for a few years. I worked there, so it made sense schedule-wise and for the religious education. Was the education high quality?  Well, my kids are high achievers, so they did well. They were rule followers as well, so they didn’t get into trouble. However, the kids who couldn’t keep up academically, or in conduct, were shown the door. The “special needs” department was closed at some point, leaving a lot of kids without support.

They were always asking for more money, and working parents complained about no-school days because they didn’t match up with fcps days, so finding a “camp” for the teacher work days, or spring break was near impossible. Parents had to complete a certain amount of volunteer hours. There were charged more money if they failed at that.

Many teachers had no credentials; the pay was low as well. Parents of boys were always getting complaints from teachers because they “couldn’t sit still”.  The rooms were tight, around 28-30 students per class. Also, because of the small number of students, they barely offered electives. There were no honor level classes or gifted and talented options. Crazy smart kids were lumped into “gen-pop” groups, and then expected to “behave” when they were bored out of their minds!

We moved our kids to fcps for high school, not a top rated one, and they have done well. The only issue we have is with the bathrooms being closed during the day. We 100% voted to support public schools while our kids were at private. Public education benefits all of society, in my view. Is it perfect?  Of course not, is it better than most private schools, I would argue that it is. [/quote]

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