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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why are public school parents so freaked out by the decision by a handful of private schools to walk way from the APs? What scares them so much.[/quote]

i think they are more bemused by private schools styling themselves as beyond the APs.[/quote]

I'm not sure they are bemused.  It seems to go beyond that based on this thread.  They seem pretty worked up to me.[/quote]

[b]I think a lot of public school parents who frequent the private school board have a measure of insecurity about whether they are providing their child the best possible education[/b]. When private and public schools alike are offering the same curriculum to their “best” students, that insecurity is alleviated. When private schools are now planning to offer something that could be perceived as better than public schools’ best, that insecurity is exacerbated.

I don’t have a dog in the fight, other than my disdain for the College Board, and anything that exposes their scams - high schools dropping AP, colleges going test optional or at least dropping the SAT essay requirement - makes me happy[/quote]

though, at the same time, i think private school parents really want to believe that, because they are spending so much money on tuition, their school must be the very best school but these schools' prices are not an indication of their quality -- they're merely an indication the these schools don't get financial support from the government. 
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In most cases, independent school parents are choosing what we think is best for our individual children. We have the luxury of not particularly having to worry about tuition or cost/benefit analysis and would prefer to spend our money on our children instead of other things.  If my child was math/science focused, I certainly would have been inclined toward the public magnets. But, for a humanities focused child, the DC area suburban public schools are at a great disadvantage.  Classes are too large for extensive writing. Public bureaucracy limits what students read in the classroom. And, too few students are prepared to do the heavy intellectual lifting. I'm happy to support higher property taxes to keep improving public schools and my decision lets the public schools teach one less student for the same tax revenue. [/quote]

I think the language immersion schools are the most impressive schools in the District. It seems amazing to me that seven-year olds are learning science and math and all the other subjects in a foreign language. [/quote]

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