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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe the public schools are underwhelming because the wealthy people keep dodging them for privates, rather than fighting for and investing in their community schools. There’s no shortage of wealthy families living in Bowie and Annapolis, yet there is a major shortage of them enrolled in the public schools relative to their presence in the neighborhoods themselves. Most private schools in Anne Arundel County are mediocre anyways. Some even have lower SAT averages than many of the publics in AA County and probably PG County, and the list of colleges that the graduates go to at most of the AA privates are very underwhelming as well. Imagine paying all that tuition for Spalding or Indian Creek just for your kid to go to AACC, Towson, or Salisbury. Those privates weren’t made for families who value education. They were made for the kids of rich white business owners and CEOs who are not very educated themselves and live in giant waterfront homes. They were made for the population that is simply afraid of ethnic minorities and poor kids.[/quote]

I’m sorry, what’s your point? You did not answer the posters question. People choose private for different reasons. I agree, at the high school level the public can be better in college output. [b]However people don’t choose private for that alone[/b].[/quote]

You’re right, they choose it to keep their kids away from poor kids and minorities or do religiously indoctrinate their children, because why else would they send their kids to some mediocre private school where more than a quarter of the kids end up at the community college? An Annapolis private full of beach bum families who have money from a business is far more underwhelming than most of the public schools around here.

The name attached to OP’s post is easily searchable, and she’s a white, seemingly well-off attorney at the US Department of Education. Can’t believe someone who works in such a position would make snap judgements about schools she has probably never visited. She should know better of all people. [/quote]

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