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[quote=Anonymous][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]

In private, your kid would be reading whole books since first grade[/quote]

He didn't in 1st or 2nd, that's part of why we pulled him back to public. In 3rd-5th there were lots of novels and book clubs, but in 6th this year it's been only benchmark.[/quote]

I guess it depends on the private. Ours does novels starting in first and then it just keeps going. They start doing some historical fiction starting in 3rd and up so there can be some history/language arts integration. [/quote]

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