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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents do not send their children to private for one output that you consider “little”. They send their kids to private because of tradition, a rite of passage, for the experience, to be surrounded by peers of similar backgrounds, for classroom management and better academics overall, structure and conformity, to network and PR, and so on and so forth.. 
it is the public school mindset that addresses things in such a way: If I put X-money in, I have to get one output.[/quote]

Not buying it. They mostly send their kids to private schools for smaller classes and a cocoon environment, where teens are closely monitored and sheltered. Better academics overall? Better than DCPS and DCPCS, yes. But in the burbs, better academics are mainly found in test-in public magnets (TJ, Montgomery Blair STEM etc.) and IB Diploma programs where students need to clear an academic bar to qualify for Diploma classes (BCC, Washington-Liberty, Fairfax etc.).  TJ has more NMSFs than any private school in the area by a long shot. Sidwell will get 8-12% NMSFs while TJ still gets 20-25%, even with the watering down of admission standards 4 or 5 years ago.  [/quote]

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