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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been a public high school teacher for many years, and my own kid left public for private for middle school (for social reasons) and will be returning to public.

Most of the kids from private whom I have taught (K-8 or just middle in private) absolutely thrive at our excellent public high school and enter with self-confidence, self-advocacy skills, and a desire (in a good way) to be known by teachers.  We have a fair number of kids enter from private each year and quite a bit of transience overall in the district, so I have seen the kids from private make fast social connections and get involved in extracurricular activities.

The kids who have the hardest transitions, in my experience, are those with not properly diagnosed learning challenges who were not served well in private school.  In public, despite the larger class sizes, we have way more interventions and supports for struggling learners, and teachers develop the skills to work with a wider range of learners.  I have taught kids from private who are way behind in skills because of a learning challenge that wasn't caught and supported early on.

My kid went from an excellent public school for K-5 to an excellent private school for 6-8, and it's really apples and oranges in terms of academic preparation.  They are definitely reading and writing more in private, which is great in itself, and yet there is way more direct instruction and scaffolding in public with reading and writing, so fewer learners are lost along the way.  One thing I have learned (I teach classes of 25-30, and my kid in classes of 12-15): parents should please not presume that smaller class sizes automatically make everything about the learning better in a private school.  [/quote]

We are in a top dcps ES. Teachers use YouTube during class. Report cards are a joke (no student specific comments, everyone gets the same grade in specials etc) and teachers do the minimum required. How is this better…[/quote]

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