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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who admits to being jealous about all sorts of money things from travel to car to home renovations I can 1000 percent say private does not make the list. I have also found the teachers are better on balance in public, esp after learning a very average classmate of mine got a job teaching at sidwell with no prior experience. (Years ago) No doubt smaller class sizes, personal attention/coddling and better facilities come with private, and there’s the occasional bad teacher in public. I’m just one of those people who has different values including socioeconomic diversity, and feels my public is more than good enough to educated kids. And I’m not alone judging by all the Uber educated and wealthy families in our local public. [/quote]

As someone who lives in a mediocre school district and who has put a kid in both public and private schools, I get tired of hearing UMC parents brag about how they send their kids to public because they value "socio-economic diversity." There needs to be a reality check about these claims. UMC parents are able to send their kids to high-performing public schools which are largely shielded from the kind of socio-economic diversity that really matters in terms of outcomes. There is a huge difference between schools in wealthy areas and schools in poorer areas. Moreover, within the schools themselves, there is differentiation in terms of the highest-performing students, who usually form their own largely homogeneous group, and low-performing students. [/quote]

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