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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the Whitman cluster with ES kids. We are generally happy with our teachers and love our school community, but classes for my kindergartner and 4th grader have 25+ kids. The administrators are also extremely frustrating communicators and under qualified. My oldest needed some additional assistance learning to read, which we accomplished through after school tutoring. I am not sure we are quite ready to switch to private school quite yet, but my spouse is.

If you can afford parochial or private school, why do you keep your kids in MCPS?[/quote]
We'd like to retire sooner rather than later, we have college expenses to look at, and we can't see sending my kids to a parochial for for religious indoctrination that doesn't match our beliefs.

Oh, and we find MCPS to be quite good despite all the people on DCUM lambasting 'em.[/quote]

[b]Does your kid feel safe? [/quote][/b]

What planet do you live on? Public schools in this country are extremely segregated by SES because public school funding comes out of property tax bills. Thus people who can afford to send their kids to private school likely live in a neighborhood whose public school pyramid is comprised with mostly white / 
Asian kids with professional parents who are well off. Yes, their kids feel safe at school.

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Really?  So because their school is mostly white, they are safer?  What about the knife incident at Churchill and most recently the gun found on the WJ student just this weekend.  Public high schools are cesspools of disturbed youth.  I'm sending mine to[b] all girls[/b].[/quote]
FYI there's some scary stuff going on there, too.[/quote]
I’m sorry to say there are disturbed kids everywhere these days. It’s very sad and at least in a large pool of kids your child can try to avoid them. It’s a hard time right now. [/quote]

When was the last time you heard of a violent crime in an all girls school?  Shooting?  Like I said, I feel my daughter will be much safer in an all girls environment and grateful we have the means for it.[/quote]

It was all eating disorders, suicide attempts, unplanned pregnancy, and addiction disorders at my all-girl HS.  I guess that’s better??  Much more expensive to treat than a gunshot wound, though, my dad would want me to add. [/quote]

LOL, all that stuff exists at public schools as well on a larger scale.  Try again.[/quote]

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