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[quote=Anonymous]I moved my kids to private for high school (Big3) because they were in DCPS and had never learned to write well.  This really bothered me.  The math instruction in public was good.  But they could barely read critically, write thoughtfully or work hard.  Their work ethic was horrible because very little was ever asked of them. They got As for turning in just about anything because
there were plenty of kids turning in nothing and those kids could't be failed.  So those who turned in nothing got Cs and kids like mine always got As even though they were barely doing anything.  Again, that really bothered me.  I have no illusion that they'll get into better colleges or develop networking circle or whatever other reasons people think that families use private for.

I did it purely for learning. I myself went to a crappy high school (in my case it was a crappy private) and I entered college behind my peers from stronger schools. As such, it REALLY bothered me that my kids weren't learning some of the basic fundamentals in school.  I supplemented for years but it became increasingly difficult to supplement older kids (mainly because they don't want to do extra reading/writing/whatever on the weekend for mom and dad. 
  
This was DCPS. MCPS and FCPS might be ENTIRELY different.  I have no experience with those districts.  [/quote]

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