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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools allow entitled families to protect their children from the realities of life and ensure inflated grades and homogeneous friends.  That's it.  There is a reason why so many private school students get 'great grades' but "can't seem to take those darn standardized tests" very well.  It's because the grades are a gift paid for by tuition and the kids aren't that smart - they are just white, entitled, and have hovering parents to ensure short term success.

[b]When your child goes to college, they are better served by a public school education where they need to figure out what to study and no one is giving them a gift.  28 students is fine.  This is ridiculous.  [/b]

Stop bad mouthing different races and immigrants.  They have accomplished more than you have and had to do it with racists trying to undermine them the entire way.  And these posts just prove that.

The hypocrisy on this post is amazing. Entitled (white) SAHMs who accomplish nothing other than coddling their children and complaining about how it's the school systems fault for their kids'  poor performance.  Unbelievable.

Oh - and please don't think all white people are this racist and ignorant.  I swear this forum has gotten worse in the last year with the racists feeling more comfortable saying ignorant things and (ironically) blaming the 'system' for their child't mediocre performance.

Any citations to back this up or is it just opinion?

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Well, the research is there.  It seems ‘success’ is determined by parents and not by public v. private school.  There is a confounding effect with private schools.  Incrementally, private schools aren’t worth it across ALL public schools – even the mediocre ones.  Let alone strong public schools like MoCo or Fairfax. While folks complain here about MoCo, you need to go to Alabama or Mississippi or South Dakota to see bad public schools.  And the studies include the bad public schools in their research.  So one could easily say that MoCo or Fairfax or Howard would be better than average (that’s not a stretch).  The key is the incremental benefit above and beyond what parents give their kids by being aware, concerned, active, etc.  Everyone on this discussion board is, by definition, aware, concerned, active, etc.  So parental disposition, when taken into account, dictates achievement.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/05/14/31publicprivate.h33.html 
http://theweek.com/articles/464411/private-school-worth

You can also just ask college professors at major universities.  Those little gifts of “A”s that are not deserved set up entitled children who become entitled and delusional college students.  We can see what leads to success and it’s not the private school student.

There are probably two things going on:  (1) parents want to do more for their child so they spend money on them with a private school thinking more money means better.  (2) Then they have to justify their decision otherwise they look pretty stupid for paying all that money for a worse education.  That happens in the catholic school near me where kids get As and then are asked to repeat a grade when they transfer to a public school.  That is not an exaggeration.

You have to ask yourself how kids get straight As or valedictorian in their private school class and don’t get 800s on their SATs.  There are kids with perfect SATs in public schools who have an unweighted 3.5.  There are no gifts in a MoCo A.  Or Fairfax A.  There are easy As in private school.

I don’t expect private school families to admit this – although surprisingly some will admit it wasn’t worth it in hindsight.

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