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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public school parent here.  Sometimes I feel bad about my student not having gotten [b]the type of education[/b] that kids at schools like Sidwell get.  Then I read through threads like this one and THANK GOD that my kid wasn't in this type of toxic environment for the last few years, because:

1) my kid knows that their worth is not based on which college accepts them; and

2) we know that there are more than 7 great colleges out there.

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As a prof, I have found the students from private schools to come in with a more sophisticated set of skills, but they don't seem to grow as fast in college.  The students who get their first writing/reading/research intensives in college rather than in high school often just shoot up amazingly fast.  Freshman fall I can tell who went to a 'good private'--by sophomore or junior year there's zero difference in reading/writing/critical thinking. Also, the former public school kids often seem more confident in their academic skills in their junior and senior years in college because they can sense their growth and it coincides with them living more independently.  This isn't universal, of course,---just a trend I've noticed.  It's been enough for me to decide that good public schools are fine for my kids.[/quote]

This is good to hear.  We have never seriously considered private--DH and I both went to public schools and believe strongly in principle on not leaving them--but have been underwhelmed by them, particular at the middle school/high school level....almost no long term assignments.  DC did do well on APs and on SATs so that gave us a bit of confidence but we are sort of assuming the first year of college is going to be like drinking through a fire hose...[/quote]

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