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[quote=Anonymous]How is it any big surprise that private schools are better than public schools in a lot of ways?  Umm, that's why people generally want to be rich, no?

My public school 4th grade in 1981 had 42 kids.  The next year (5th grade), we only had 15 kids, but we had to share a teacher with a different class -- 50% of the time we literally had no teacher (or teacher aide -- I'd never even heard of that until recent years), and obviously no computers to do individualized instruction.  So all the people saying public school no longer prioritizes education....I'm wondering where you went to public school where the classes were all small and the teachers had the brains of Einstein and the demeanor of Mary Poppins.

I'm not MCPS's biggest defender -- I have a fair amount of criticism of certain things that the central office is doing.  But I'm a little sick of all the "private school, here we come" posts when people suddenly recognize that private school is better than public.  Particularly given the private schools around here....many of which seem like they have nicer facilities than Harvard.  My 5th grader knows how to read and write, knows basic early American history, knows multiplication, long division, fractions, etc....that's more than a lot of the 5th graders I grew up with.[/quote]

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