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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. My kids are being plenty challenged at home…they’re outside, never on screens, building stuff, Boy Scouts and chess competitions.

I mean during the day…I wish they were at private schools and were known and loved. I wish they were playing outside on cool structures and not old, falling down soccer posts.[/quote]

I knew, even though you didn't disclose in your first post, that you had hyperactive boys. Also, private school teachers are there for the same reasons at public school teachers. "known and loved" - please. [/quote]

Not OP. My kids are at a private school that prides itself on making kids feel "known and loved," but they were in public for all or most of ES (depending on kid). I got so prickly during the interview process when the school would act like people being "known and loved" set them apart from other schools. At public I went into parent teacher conferences and was routinely blown away by how deeply my kids' public school teachers, sometimes in fairly large classes, had deep insight into who my kids were. In some cases they all had the same wonderful elementary teachers, who were often easily able to distinguish how my kids were different from each other and express that to me. A good teacher knows and loves his/her students - yes, even the unlovable ones. Just like any good caregiver does.[/quote]

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