Reply to Indulge my fantasy - top private vs. Walls

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "Indulge my fantasy - top private vs. Walls"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Your chances of having this choice are very very low.  There are, surprise to no one, more than say 15 really smart gritty go getter girls from the entire DMV looking into Sid and GDS for 9th.  So this fantasy is, as you recognize, a real fantasy.

That being said, we chose a Big 3 over our very excellent punching above its weight college admissions public for the reasons outlined by others but to put a finer point on it.

First, the writing, editing, and analytical development.   I think there are equally good teachers at the good public schools.  But, they have exponentially more students.   A private school English teacher can assign a three page paper and then edit it and provide those edits back. That iterative process can continue.  That is simply not possible with the numbers of students a public school teacher has to deal with. (3 page paper, times 50 kids at best, etc.). Also, say 25 kids on a class; your child will by definition have fewer opportunities to engage in meaningful academic back and forth guided by a teacher.

Also, we liked the lack of grade inflation.  We felt that our child deserved meaningful feedback on their performance. We wanted our child to have some grade challenged in high school when we were there to my guide them. That is much more likely to happen at a private school.

We also see that the classes are harder.  They just are.  People can pretend that they aren’t but my kid does way more homework than his peers at our local public.  I understand this cuts both ways — 3 hours of homework on some nights freshman year is not actually beneficial to my kid.

Finally, and again this will be like throwing gasoline on a fire, we came to the conclusion that college outcomes are better.   Which made sense to us for the reasons outlined above.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics