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[quote=Anonymous]On a very basic level, it just takes a lot of time away from learning and skills. Kids spend a lot of mental energy trying to answer these big questions about how they may or may not need to fix a world they don’t even know yet. They aren’t naturally interested in it, and it kind of deadens their enthusiasm. Would you want to be stuck in an HR lecture all day?

It also turns the admin focus and the teaches focus away from the individual kids and their achievement. If a kid wins a math tournament, instead of it being like woah, look at that, good for you, let’s get more kids up there with you — it becomes a discussion among adults about what that child’s race says about whether they as teachers are racist or not.

It also means spending a lot of money for a group of educational professionals who aren’t in the classroom and don’t know the kids but have a lot of power to tell teachers how to teach. It just creates a lot of busy work for the faculty and mainly benefits adults who like meetings.

Mississippi is leading the nation at teaching poor children of all races reading, writing and math and it’s doing none of this. How that isn’t equity is a mystery to me, but it isn’t according to the people who are really into equity.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems to me the entire point of TT is for status and networking. It goes along with the country house, classic six and charity events.

It’s debatable whether the education is better than a suburban public and probably not.  Your kid is simply more likely to befriend someone whose parent is a billionaire and travels via PJ.

One issue I see is that kids at NYC privates don’t have PT jobs. A PT job is instrumental in teaching life skills. It’s a humbling experience and important. Given AI, I’m more focused on my kids learning life skills than some elite resume.

FWIW I attended a selective private and then a public HS.  I didn’t think either was really better just different. The public had more diverse makeup. Not racial but socioeconomic and the kids were meaner. Better athletics and math. At the private I was constantly told how special I was and a lot of brainwashing about public schools and how terrible they are. [/quote]

I went to a top ranked public school in NJ. In no way are public schools able to match the quality of private school education, especially now with the focus on equity (with the possible exception of science magnet school).   Of course, there are very good private schools in the suburbs as well.  Presumably your budget will cover that as well.[/quote]

Genuinely curious, how has the focus on equity changed curriculums in public? I've heard anecdotally that standards keep on getting lowered but have no direct experience with this nor have spoken to other parents in depth about this. Was the top ranked school district you attended similar to a Summit, Princeton, Mountain Lakes, Tenafly, etc.? [/quote][/quote]

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