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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Nah the standardized tests in public school are largely given in the spring to bury scores - and the child has been promoted anyways so gains little to no value from them.  This notion that somehow public schools are more accountable or follow evidence based research more than private is a total fallacy here in DMV because we pay so much in taxes for such poor quality schools.  Public schools are jobs programs for lower third of all university’s graduating class.  They’re smart enough to vote but not smart enough to be productive. (In a pure liberal economic sense)[/quote]

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