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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a MoCo public school kid many years ago and my mom taught at top MoCo public school (now retired).  My husband and his family are die hard for private schools, even though we live in MoCo with great public schools.  We are lucky to have family help pay for a top private school.  I figured it would be hard to look that gift horse in the mouth, but the cons have been surprising to me:

-no real diversity.  Plenty of wokeness - which is generally good, but it feels more like they're conditioning kids to see lower middle and poor as "others" to be pitied and donated to, NOT actually developing any true understanding or empathy which is a HUGE con.  It is important to develop social responsibility and a "give back" ethic, it should be with empathy and understanding.  Maybe in the upper grades that comes in?
- keeping my kids (one in particular) from becoming a spoiled brat is now 1000000 times harder.  
- smaller classes does not mean effective teaching.  We are spending additional thousands on a tutor (who finds teaching our kid easy, so not really sure what happened in classes). Obv this is one that's highly depending on the student.
- It feels like people are there more for the reputation and networking, not actually the "values" the school is known for.  
- Feeling like it's SOOO not worth the $ since we live in MoCo - is worth the $ if you'd be at most DC public schools.  I should mention that I really don't like "brands" where people flock without regard to the quality or function, so it is reasonable to say that I don't think the school is really all that fabulous (not bad, but does live up to my expectations). I'm also not so rich that I don't have to work and/or have no sense of $.  Again, this one is probably VERY student specific
-Later on it'll be harder to get into college from this school vs a public school (unless they're really top of the class and even if I assume kids are capable, they are not looking like they're quite that motivated and I am not going to be crazy pushy)
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My goodness..You're not invited to the pancake breakfast anymore :D [/quote]

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