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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WWYD: we are not in our forever home and want our next house to be our long term home. Our problem is we don’t think we can get our house ready to sell this spring/summer and our eldest starts K this fall. The eldest is currently in a Montessori daycare (that we no longer like) with their youngest sibling. Would you a) find a new Montessori daycare and have eldest complete K there, or b) send eldest to public K and change schools when we move next year?[/quote]

If I could do it again my kids would go to private schools. FCPS seems to get messier every year and most parents I know have tutors. My kids are older and don't want to leave friends/sports but if they were younger we would pull them out.[/quote]

FWIW we did private for K-2 and were equally displeased. I think we threw away nearly $100k and didn't get anything we couldn't have gotten in public, except less screen time. We moved back to FCPS for 3rd.

I do think benchmark has kind of ruined upper elementary language arts, as there are no more book clubs/novel groups, it's all just paragraphs from a textbook which has killed my child's love of reading...but I'm not sure it would be different in private school, we didn't make it that far.[/quote] can you explain more about benchmark and how it’s ruined language arts and your child’s love of reading? [/quote]

Benchmark is like an old school textbook with tons of excerpts but no full stories. They read 3 paragraphs about person A and a poem about person B and then have to write a comparison essay. Or they read an excerpt from book A and an excerpt from book B and have to explain how the characters show xyz trait. The teacher has been trying to give them summaries of the books to give them more background info, but DS is just frustrated that they don't get to read a whole book and are writing full 5 paragraph essays based on a grand total of 5 paragraphs of source text.[/quote]

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