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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been a push everywhere.   My child is super involved in the arts.  The program director shared with me that last year they stopped announcing internal and external awards.  It was because parents of non-recipients where relentless to the point of abusive of she and her staff about their kids not being acknowledged.   [/quote]

The parents are paying a lot of money, if Larla's painting wasn't good enough, maybe it was the teacher's fault? Isn't superior instruction and individual attention supposed to be the point of an independent school- why can't the teacher get Larla to your kid's level?  [/quote]
It’s partly this. [b]Easily most private school parents fear their child can’t cut it in a public school or magnet or school with over 140 students PER G[/b]RADE.

How will my poor coddled child different themselves? 
What if the class size is over 15 students per class, oh my?!
What will my child or teen do if they are not watched like a hawk by a $50,000.00 per year day school?
How would my mediocre athlete make the cut at a bigger high school? Better go private or start fencing or squash lessons ASAP! 
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Haha - so all private school kids are public school washouts? LOLOL. Yeah. Okay. What the hell are you doing on the private school forum? You clearly have a problem with private school kids and families, yet you come here to read and post?  The only reasons I can think of that a person would go read a bunch of posts about something they clearly disdain is either 1. deep seated insecurity 2. jealousy 3. transference of blame from past problems onto an entire community they feel has wronged them in some way. 4. ?? It actually really mystifys me. There are many communities of people on DCUM that I don't associate with in anyway in my daily life. I would never think of going to a specific forum and spend my time reading about their lives and their issues, much less commenting on things I've never done, had, been involved in, or experienced.

BTW - while not all private schools are great, many of them are and I guess you have a right to be so hostile - the kids in these schools are definitely getting things that yours are not getting in public. Sorry. I've done both (and no, my kids don't attend private because they can't cut it in public).  If you've never had a child attend you really have no idea what an amazing experience and education it can be for a kid.  [/quote]

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