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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the smug private school parents out there:

I'm a private school teacher. I get why you need to justify your choice to spend 25K+/year on each child's education. I frankly think it's worth it.

But you don't need to justify your choice by putting down MCPS teachers. They are not lazy or unskilled. From what I have seen, they work a lot harder than most of us private school teachers. They have to deal with a lot more bureaucratic crap and often twice as many students.

The private school setting allows me to teach to the best of my ability because for the most part I am able to prioritize classroom instruction, individual attention to student needs, extensive feedback to students and communication with parents/counselors. That's why you spend 25K+ for your child. Not because MCPS teachers are worse than us.[/quote]

We pulled our child from a private b/c the teachers weren't required to earn certification. A BS in English doesn't equip you with skills to teach.

What other profession would accept such nonsense?

Her "free" education is superior to any instruction she received at her former private.  I could kick myself for wasting that money.  People pay for the prestige.  [/quote]

Quoted private school teacher here. I've posted about this before on DCUM and people refused to believe this, but over the years as a student and a teacher at private schools I have seen that there's always at least one teacher every year (and often more than 1) hired straight from undergrad, either as a desperate alum looking for a job, or someone with the a HYP undergrad degree or something similar. Some of these teachers end up having a natural knack and passion for teaching and the years of experience and mentoring lead to great teaching. And some leave within the first couple years because they were disastrous teachers or because they realized teaching just wasn't for them. That is a risk that private schools often take. I think it works out well often enough that people accept it.[/quote]

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