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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I noticed when I moved my kids from a private school to a public school:

1.  Teachers and staff were uniformly supportive of my kids -- kind, gentle and understanding. They worked really hard to help my kids get where they were supposed to be and do what they were supposed to do.  "Positive discipline" was the rule.  That was very different from the private school, which expected kids to comply and when they didn't, there was a lot of exasperation.

2.  The teachers were MUCH better trained.  They had many tools in their tool box for teaching material to different kinds of kids. They had many different methods for ensuring that behavior was good.

3.  We had more variety in extracurriculars and enrichment activities.

4. We had more diversity in race, ethnic background and SES.

5.  We had more resources - the school has speech therapists, occupational therapists, nurses, psychologists -- to help us, if we need it.

6.  The academic side was the same or better. [/quote]

OP here. I agree with 2, 5, and 6.
We had more [b]diversity [/b]at our private school, fewer academic resources. But we had nice teachers. The tuition of 35K was the deal breaker. [/quote]

Just how do you define "diversity"? Rich white kids and rich "brown" kids? I can't imagine that there would be much economic diversity at a school that cost 35k.[/quote]

Well rich white people and poor brown people is a toxic type of diversity.[/quote]

Why do you think that "brown" kids in private school are poor? Or that white kids in private school are rich? BTW, at our private school, there were so many types of families that the diversity was much better than at Whitman. [/quote]

Not the person you are quoting, but I assume that 95% of students at expensive private schools are upper middle class/rich. To me, that's not a particularly diverse environment. [/quote]

But that is the same demographic as Whitman. But Holton has more racial diversity than Whitman. [/quote]

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