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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School systems are doing this to themselves, they polled parents, learned preferences and then ignored those preferences. [/quote]

Yep, exactly.

DH and I would SO much rather send our daughter to public school, but the public schools have gone down the tube, and well before COVID. [/quote]

I was told in another thread that I only had my kids in public because I can’t afford private.

Lol.

I chose public because I went through them and saw no major problems (bad teachers seemed to stick around, but there weren’t very many of them)

I never even considered private and was surprised so many in my pyramid chose it. Well, the last few months have been instructive.  I salute my public school parent friends who decided last spring that it was time to switch to private.   Too late for us so we have to pod and tutor but fall 2021 is another story.[/quote]

I’m the PP you’re responding to. DH and I can see the *clear* differences between the public schools we went to and MCPS, at least as far as K-8 is concerned.

Just a couple of problems, not caused by the pandemic:

- Overuse of technology
- Virtually no instruction in grammar
- Little use of phonetics to teach reading
- Little emphasis on subjects outside of reading and math

Our ES is way overcrowded and the budget cuts MCPS has been forced to take makes me skeptical that they’ll complete the remedy for that situation on schedule, meaning our kid would be in an exceptionally overcrowded school.

We’ll reevaluate as time goes on, but as far as the early ES years are concerned, we just can’t do it.[/quote]

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