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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools are different, not all offer the same academics. Some are able to do special classes for very bright kids even if the rest of the class isn't there. Some have a high achieving student body generally. And some can't really do advanced academics.

What I've found most valuable are the specials (music, art, theater) that have been largely gutted at public, and the writing instruction. Meaningful science, history, and language classes also start at younger grades than at public. [/quote]

Our public offers Spanish every day and PE 4x/week, and have kept art and music once a week. We still ended up pulling DD out of public when we realized it was all screens all the time and she wasn't learning to write. We stayed until 3rd grade and they hadn't ever read a whole book as a class, just had the homework of "We recommend reading every night at home." She's in a parochial school now which is kind of a grind, more than I'd like maybe, but at least she can identify nouns and pronouns and use proper punctuation. Handwriting improved to the point where it's unrecognizable from 2nd to 4th grade. The classroom teacher even reads aloud to them every day from above grade level books, and they have silent reading time (out of books, not on an iPad). PE is only once a week, and so are Spanish and music.[/quote]

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