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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s a real mindf&$ck: when all of this is over your child is going to inhabit the same colleges and jobs and communities as kids who just sidled up to the local public kindergarten.

It’s nice that you will have a bespoke experience, but it’s more about you than about your child.[/quote]

No it’s not. If it’s about me and not my kids, I would not be paying nearly $100k a year for 2 privates. And I know full well that my kids will be “sidled up” as you say next to public school kids when they are off to college. I also know that my kids would be miserable (as I was in public schools) to be [b]warehoused in an overcrowded school with overstretched teachers who barely know you, getting haphazard education and floating through grades like a ghost without any real mindful learning[/b]. But if you think that private education is a real mindf*ck, you go with that if that makes you feel better about your choices. [/quote]

wow.  you really believe this?  My kids were in DCPS and are now doing extremely well at STA and NCS.  They're great writers, they're in the top math classes, they think critically.  All of this learned in (gasp) public school.  While in public they were always in classes of under 20.  
It's baffling to me that you think that kids are not learning anything in public school.  I'm here to say that my kids learned just as much as they would have at Beauvoir.  In fact, they have leapt right over many if not most of the Beauvoir kids.  I get that paying $100K is hard (I pay it too)
but it's really not the only way to learn--especially in the early years.  [/quote]

Your experience doesn’t line up with the local Montgomery county school we are zoned for (seriously, what DMV public now days has class size less than 20?!).  Our elementary school was packed to the hilt and the principal told us that overcrowding was only going to get worse.

Look, public education, even with class size 30+ can be great. I was educated overseas where class size was closer to 50. I learned a lot. It was a great education. But public education that I experienced here in the States?  No way.

And, for the record, I didn’t say you don’t learn anything in public schools. Let’s not be hyperbolic. But compare to the more thoughtful education I pay for my kids to experience? Nope.  Of course YMMV. [/quote]

Yep. This. My child did very well in MCPS but is simply flourishing with the attention and opportunities at her private. Also, [b]if you want your kids to play sports, do debate, be in plays, sing, yearbook, do poetry, math, art competitions - the competition to do these things at huge huge schools is so great many kids don’t even get a chance.[/b] With much smaller classes there are more opportunities. There are also countless more opportunities to do fellowships, get involved in music, language programs, etc and what have you. It is, indeed, a bespoke experience for the child. Sorry if that makes you feel all angry pants. But that’s what most of us are paying for. [/quote]

My kids did debate, musicals, Math counts and sports in public elementary and middle school and then were accepted to multiple Big3 high schools (Sidwelll, Potomac, STA/NCS, etc).

I'm sorry your kid is mediocre enough that he/she didn't stand out in public.  By all means pay $50K a year to have his/her average hands held.   But please don't spread lies about public.  I know [b]many [/b]kids who thrived in public who then either left for a Big3 for high school or an elite college. 
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