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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We left DCPS for top privates in 9th grade because my kids could barely write a basic essay. 
Also, I have personally known many DCPS grads who struggled in college.  Sure, on DCUM somebody's uncle's cousin's friend left JR and aced his classes at Harvard but in my real-life world, among people I know and trust, (relatives, close friends, etc) there are many grads who struggled.  So the point of private school for us is far, far better instruction.  [/quote]

Oof...can we answer the question without having to deride other schools.  I know plenty of public and private kids that have struggled at college...have close friends' kids from private school that either deferred or had to take leave at Top 10 schools due to psychological issues (which was impacting grades for the one taking leave...but not saying they couldn't do the work, just that their problems were preventing them from fully functioning).  I don't then spew here that many private school kids have horrible psychological problems.

Public school kids that take many AP classes and score well on the tests and have high SAT scores do just fine and many thrive in college.  Yes, in my real life world too.

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You gave it a try, PP. But the poster you are responding to lives for threads where they can talk about how they saved their kids from public school and got them into “top” privates. They were as tiresome at their previous schools as they are now. But their kids will all graduate and then perhaps they will move on. [/quote]

I agree there is no need to deride other kids in DCPS, [b]plus it isn’t accurate. [/b]But by the same token, it’s not reasonable to dismiss that some of our kids have had horrifying experiences in the public schools. I do not care about university admissions. But I do care that my child go to a school where kids aren’t overdosing in the bathrooms, or where kids aren’t caught with guns and knives on campus. I want my kid to be assigned reading that isn’t a short except from a book, rather than the whole book. My eldest kid got though his public middle school having never written essays that were longer than a single page, with straight As. And that’s not even touching the fights, violence, and drugs. [/quote]

I'm the poster you're replying to.  IT IS ACCURATE.  I'm sharing my kids' life experience.  Did you live my kids' experience?  Are you me or my children?

I shared that DCPS did not teach my children to write.  They got high As and yet they couldn't write their ways out of a paper bag. 
This was our experience and we are 1000% allowed to share it here or where ever we want.  When you spend 10 years in DCPS you can share about your experience there.  
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No, I mean you can’t speak conclusively about what other kids learned or their experiences. I believe you with respect to your own child. [/quote]

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