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Why are some parents so afraid of letting their kids be taught in school? [/quote]

Because local public schools actually are not competent at teaching either reading or math.

Example: For reading, they use the widely discredited “whole language” / “balanced reading” methods, which do not work for about 60% of students (about 40% will learn to read regardless of the curriculum).  See many threads in the DCUM education fora, WashPost editorial from last month, et alia.

Reading in VA will be improving in coming years, and many thanks to the NAACP for pressuring Fairfax and Arlington to move to a Phonics-centered reading curriculum.  That will take a few years to really materialize.  Our DC need to be able to read now, as they already are in elementary.

Math likely will remain poorly taught in the US for decades, sigh.  Privates do much better than most publics at math, but privates still can be uneven.  In FCPS and MCPS, most of the top math students learned after school, not in school, using better curricula and real worksheets for practice at home.

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