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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have girls who are good students and well behaved, they were generally ignored in our highly ranked public elementary school. Teachers would give us very little feedback other than they were doing well and didn’t need any attention and we felt they were getting lost and floating through. We moved them to a highly ranked all girls school and they are flourishing, teachers are spending a lot more time getting to know them as individuals and tailoring their learning. It is a ton of money for us and certainly a luxury as they were fine in public school, but for our girls we see a huge value to this type of education.[/quote]
We had the exact same experience. Instead of getting feedback from teachers, they would say things like “you have nothing to worry about”. Like hoe does that help? I understand from their perspective that we’ll behaved and above grade level kids make it easier for them to deal with the other kids. But I always kept asking the question, what about my kid? Don’t they also deserve an education? So we had to start supplementing after school with tutoring, but quickly realized how unfair it is to the kids.

It’s just such a waste of time to Spend a whole day in school and then have more school after. Particularly when there is some many more enriching things that can be done with that time. So that’s when private made a lot of sense for us. In the end, all we have is our time on this earth and we shouldn’t waste it. [/quote]

This. Our older DC was FINE in MCPS, but we knew she was being left alone bc she wasn’t the problem. Younger DC was too young to do an entire year on zoom - we figured that out too late - and needed some actual instruction.
Our non-Top-3 school tuition has netted us two kids who are happy to go to school, engaged in what they are learning, and SEEN by the school. We asked for a conference re DC1’s options in a particular area and three teachers attended, two of whom are not her actual teacher, and it was clear they actually KNEW her. And they had already been thinking about how to address her needs. Holy cow.
Private  school tuition is a stretch for us, but we will continue to eat beans and send our kids to private as long as possible.[/quote]

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