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[quote=Anonymous]I think privates could learn a thing or two about accountability from public. Since there are few objective measures, people often fail to see that they're missing out.[/quote]

I wrote the longer post above (have taught at and sent my kids to both) and I totally agree--meant to say that, actually. I know we like to demonize tests, but as a teacher, I learned a ton every year when I got the first round of interim standardized tests. Even as an experienced teacher and (in my modest opinion) a pretty good one, it is easy to get swayed by kids raising their hand a lot and (I am sorry to say) lovely handwriting. There were always a few kids who scored much lower than I would have imagined and who needed more help and monitoring than I would have guessed. I would imagine that at private schools, where there are likely to be a lot of kids with big vocabularies, it's even easier to miss kids who need help, and miss when kids are stagnating. I know private school families would probably throw fits if their kids were given 60-minute grade-level standardized tests in reading and math twice a year, but I think it would be provide a benefit. [/quote]

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