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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that public schools are expected to do much more than educate children. They provide social services, distribute food, offer healthcare, and childcare. Teachers are there to teach, but the school as an institution has far more responsibilities to meet the needs of the local community than they have the capacity or budget to. 
Private schools certainly don't have to grapple with those social challenges, and they can focus on delivering on educating the student academically, physically, and emotionally. 
We're leaving MCPS for private HS in September, not because we don't believe in public education, but because this strain on public schools has become so apparent during the pandemic. We'll miss being with kids with true grit, determined to excel and driven to get into the best colleges. But the top 5% of students in public schools are being dragged down by all the other competing issues facing public school administrators. [/quote]

Wholeheartedly agree.  We, too, are leaving MCPS this Fall for both middle and high school. I think our elementary was pretty good but middle school has not been challenging at all other than math. My children did not read one school assigned book this year. If nothing else, couldn't English have been read a book and write an essay? There is zero emphasis on writing and I know privates spend more time on writing. They read one assigned book all of last year. I went to school in a not so great district in NY and in middle school I wrote research papers and read an assigned book, one after another. When we were done with one, we'd start another. And our class sizes are all over 30 students, easily.  Most are 34 to 35 students. MCPS teaches to the lowest common denominator so we're out. It's sad. I always thought we'd go to public schools with how highly regarded they are here, but I just don't see it. I do think the pandemic highlighted all of this and these are critical years that we won't be able to catch up from if we don't make the move now. We go to a W school that is falling apart and they won't update the facilities. I've waited years for them to be updated and every year we get pushed again. At this point, if they ever decide to update it, my kids will live through a renovation but won't enjoy it.  Pass. Too many negatives.[/quote]

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