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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a private school and dc is at a private but I would prefer public school if I worked closer to my neighborhood.[b] Public schools have curriculum specialists and a well defined scope and sequence of skills that need to be taught in each grade[/b] while private schools tend to teach whatever the textbook publisher puts in the book. [/quote]

I am the one with one in private and one in public and I agree with you here. But my experience is the private school using NO curriculum or making it up on their own, which is damgerous. Often the material is not appropriate for the child's age or big gaps in content. For our math text, it was just three people who sat at a table and flipped through a few books then decided. Risky to me. [/quote]

I'm not even sure the two PPs are saying the same thing.  It sounds like PP#1 is saying private schools are worse because they just accept pre-packaged curricula, whereas public schools are better because they use specialists to craft their own personalized curricula.  But PP#2 is saying private schools are worse because they craft their own personalized curricula.[/quote]

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