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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. [b]Enough with the public school is better than private! [/b]We've experienced both. In DC you can't fire those veteran public school teachers who are grumpy tired and punitive. In fact I used to teach in MCPS and can tell you that there are plenty of people who shouldnt be teaching who teach in public. We selected private because of the depth of curriculum, the wide range of opportunities for older kids, the sense of community at our private which is an excellent school. I have given this a lot of thought though and am considering public. One question is if the students who graduate from public go to top tier schools. Not just the occasional one or two but a large group as they do at our private. [/quote]

Many publics are, in fact, better than many privates. You sound pot-committed and determined to rationalize your poor investment (you paid $32,000 only to get an incompetent teacher, after all, but somehow still need to feel reassured that the investment was the right thing).

We selected our public because of depth of curriculum, the wide range of opportunities for older kids, and the sense of community at our public, which is an excellent school. The difference is we take it as it comes, warts and all. You seemed to expect perfection because you shelled out $32,000 a year. The question I asked myself when I did this analysis was over a child's 13-year school career, was the education the private was going to give my child a half milion dollars better than the education she'd get in public? The answer was no, unless I thought I was buying a pedigree, which has no interest to me. That half a million would be better spent on real-life experiences to augment my child's education, like trips abroad, etc.

More important, we had a bad teacher once. We got dd moved to another classroom. Can you do that at your $32,000 school?[/quote]

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