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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, 19:15, I haven't found that to be the case.  And it sounds from the comments above that I am in good company.  We wasted so much money on private schools.  And once you are invested - and doing all the never-ending required mommy stuff like never-ending auctions - you find yourself boxed in.  YOu question your decision, "OK, I liked the school up to now, but what gives with this particular new teacher?  Or what gives with this new headmaster who is clearly going to suck up to the teacher and tell the parents to go to hell?  Or what about the questionable conduct about this teacher or that?  Or the fact that all of the parents are complaining that teachers won't post homework and won't synchronize tests so kids as young as 5th grade are having FIVE exams on the same day?  Or why is Mom X and Dad Y yanking their kid from this Catholic school and putting them in public mid-year.  My kid isn't happy either, should I do it too?".  I really rue the day my husband and I got swept up into the private school madness in MD when we lived in one of the best public school  systems in America.  And I failed as a mother the few times my kids were in trouble and no one in the privates were willing to take the time to help.  I now look back and see that those troublesome teachers were fired; the problematic wishy-washy headmaster was finally given his walking papers; the weird teacher in that Catholic school was  a pederast after all.  IN other words, I was right on every "gut" reaction.  But I was a weenie and didn't go to bat for my kids - who are good, nice kids - because I didn't want to get labeled as "difficult mom".  Once you are labeled "difficult mom" or "mom of a SN kid" forget it, privates just close the doors on you.  Public school has been a wonderful experience for us and we moved our kids in at just the right time - start of freshman year.  I am not lying when I say their teachers at Langley were, in every way, superior to the ones they had in the privates and Catholics in MD.  And to gild the rose, we found out today through a back door conversation with a neighbor -coincidentally on the board at the Univ. our daughter wants to attend - that she got in on early decision.  Plus got admitted to a specialty college within that university.  But we are not telling her for fear that "senioritis" will set in.   All public.   All Langley.  All her determination.  I was such a fool.[/quote]

The "return" key is over there on the right side of the keyboard.  If you hit it twice every now and again, it make paragraphs for you.[/quote]

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