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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you have kids?  Where are they in school?  Since you called out op you should at least self identify.  So if she was black and poor she’s allowed to go private, then?  Pg county has failed its students for decades due to mismanagement and poor leadership.  It’s on the leaders to turn around the school system and get parents to opt back in, stop blaming parents for things beyond their control, and asking them to use their kids as guinea pigs.  [/quote]

If you feel so strongly about PG schools and are a PG resident, then fight for change instead of dodging the publics for privates. You pay for those public schools, and no school ever turned around when the wealthy residents in the community abandoned them. I always hear about all these wealthy people in PG and Annapolis sending their kids to privates, and it always makes me wonder how different these schools would be if these parents sent their kids to public and actually advocated for change. Improving the public schools not only benefits people of all incomes, but it will improve your property values as well. Bowie would have some of the highest-performing schools in the state if wealthy families (regardless of their race) enrolled their kids and advocated for change in them.

And again, as horrible as PG might be, the privates around here are even worse. Annapolis area privates weren’t designed to be rigorous and intellectually stimulating. They were designed as an escape for white people who don’t want to send their kids to school with minorities. Private  school enrollment in Anne Arundel County jumped and many new privates opened when legally mandated segregation ended.

OP is willing to make all these sweeping generalizations about Bowie schools without even talking to anyone who sent their kids to them or conversing with the staff at the school, yet she is willing to embrace these mediocre privates with $35k/year tuitions without second thought. [/quote]

Wow.....  this is a lot, even for DCUM.  I also think it's terribly out dated (if it was ever true at all)
I have a kid at one of the schools you've mentioned.  I also have a kid in AACPS.  I'm not sending my kid to private school to escape minorities.  After all, his sibling goes to the school you think I'm trying to avoid!  Instead, he's a kid who needs much smaller classes and some of the unique programs offered at some of the private schools.
The *vast* majority of my friends in Annapolis have kids in public school.  The AHS IB program is fantastic, and plenty of waterfront home-owning parents send their kids there.

Also... AACo privates don't cost nearly as much as DC privates.  No one is paying 35K/year "without a second thought".
Key lower school is 25K.  Severn Elementary is 20K.  Indian Creek Elementary is 22K.  And those three are - by far - the most expensive of the AACo privates.
Spalding HS is 16K, although it's weird that you would mention it on a thread about elementary schools.[/quote]

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