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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ that's not the teachers fault. How often do you hear parents on this thread spouting off about merit pay for teachers. Teachers who produce get better pay. Well how the hell is that measured? Oh that's right! Test scores. 
Check out the thread on Hayfield. Bunch of a$$holes  talking about how terrible Lee, Annandale, Stuart etc... are. They would never send their kids to a GS 5! Well, pick your poison. You want your property values, I guess some eggs get cracked in that omelette. God forbid you don't have a big enough "peer" group. 
Quit blaming the administration and teachers. Or move ffs. You don't like the culture of that GS 10 school? Well honey, there are a bunch of 5's right down the road.  [/quote]

Much easier to spout off about how great her $40,000 private was.[/quote]

Sweetheart- my kid is slated to go to a very undesirable high school, as per these threads. The only people who have my sympathy in these scenarios are the kids. You parents are the worst. [/quote]

Exactly. Do you think it was my first choice to pay big money to send my three kids to private high schools? I was quite happy with the elementary and middle school so I'm not the private school 'snob' these folk want to make me out to be. It ended up being a necessity because it is my KIDS that mattered. Your child will probably do fine in the 'undesirable' school because you get it.[/quote]

Who put a gun to your head and made you live in Great Falls and send your kids to Langley? If it was so horrible, you could have pupil placed them to South Lakes or Marshall. Easier to spend hundreds of thousands on privates, I guess, and then come on here railing against people trying to do their best at the public schools or the "illegal children" who attend them.  [/quote]

THIS.  We live in Great Falls and our kids attend Langley.  They are happy and enjoy school.  But if they didn't?  We would do exactly as the PP suggested and pupil place for South Lakes or Marshall.  What's the point of spending so much money on privates that cultivate the same - or WORSE - culture of competitiveness?  Why wouldn't you place your child in a less competitive school if they were feeling pressure?  [/quote]

All privates are not alike.  If you tried to pupil place in South Lakes because your kid was not happy or thriving at Langley, you would be put in the Non-IB program and if your kid was smart, the principal would tell you it was not a good idea. You have to start IB Freshman year.

I hear this a lot from fellow Great Falls people. They have the big house, expensive cars, large diamonds, take multiple expensive vacations, but when it comes to their kids, they think private school as an alternative is a waste. That's your choice. There are a lot more unhappy kids than you think at Langley, and other competitive publics, but they are loathe to talk about it with what they feel are unsympathetic adults.

Coming from a Jewish family, education is very important to us. Jews studied even in concentration camps, and have always equated education and survival. Perhaps that makes me particularly attuned to whether or not my kids enjoy learning, rather than just going through the motions.  My boys attended a private many here either have never heard of, or if they have, make fun of. Too bad, because they are missing out.

The fact is, Fairfax county schools have been going downhill and a lot of that is due to the school board and the way our tax dollars are spent. [/quote]

So wait a minute.  Aside from your obsession with the size of other women's diamonds, you keep claiming that privates (specifically Bullis, of course) are the panacea for "unhappy kids."  No mention of all of the wealth on constant display at these privates - wealth that far exceeds what one finds at even the "best" publics.  You complain about the competitive parents at FCPS high schools, but no mention at all of the same type of parents who populate private schools.  Why is this?  Why do you think privates - specifically Bullis - are so much healthier and lower-stress for kids?  Hint:  they're not.  You're simply paying a fortune to happily be lulled into feeling like your kids are not under the academic and social pressure you claim they would be at a public.  You're so full of it.[/quote]

Smaller classes. Better meals. Individualized curriculum.  Better guidance support.  Need I go
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"Better meals"???   :lol:  :roll:  :lol:  Oh, honey.  [/quote]
Food is fuel.  Or do only eat kale?[/quote]

My kids and most of the other kids I know bring their own healthy, nutritious meals from home.  It's called common sense.[/quote]

I would imagine you have to, given the crap served up in the publics.[/quote]

Perhaps, but at least we don't have the racism problem that Bullis has.  [/quote]

Never noticed it. Kids and parents were lovely[/quote]

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