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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. PP at 20:33 took the first shot. [/quote]
Curious what you’re doing here. What would be your contribution, aside from gawking and snide comments?

For myself, I have kids in both and while they haven’t graduated yet, what I can tell you is that grading is much more rigorous in our private than public.

Half the kids in public have 4.0s, which is ridiculous. But when Bethesda Magazine published college data for our public, it doesn’t match the grade distribution. A lot of good colleges sure, but clearly a lot of kids with 4.0s out of a good public HS not going to top colleges. Grade inflation is a problem and the college admissions offices seem to know it.

On the other hand, at our private, only a couple kids graduate with 4.0s every year and there is no ambiguity about where they are accepted.

Head to head, I feel a lot more confident having a kid graduate from the private school with an UW 3.7 than the same for the public school, regardless of test scores and my skimming of college admissions results for the two I think backs this up. [/quote]

Hey I get your defensiveness…no need to explain.  [/quote]

Likely therapeutic. It’s ok. I use my savings and treat it like a scholarship fund for my child’s T25 school, while PP explains why top private school kids are just as smart as top public kids. Middle of the road stats produce the same results regardless of public or private.  That’s fact. But hard to hear when said out loud[/quote]

Privates are big business, and employ a lot of people with your tuition dollars to gain the same result for top students and average students…how dare you expose that. And the truth is, the child’s family situation is the biggest driver of success regardless if private or public…but privates don’t want you to hear that…[/quote]

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