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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve had kids in both private and public. The quality and rigor of the private was orders of magnitude better (and harder) than the public. Apparently even saying this is insulting all public school kids or something, based on the extremely sensitive posters I saw earlier. I don’t get the extreme over-sensitivity. It was a fact of our lives. Nothing more, nothing less. 🤷‍♀️

I guess I am supposed to pretend otherwise or something? Idk. Maybe the super sensitive posters were trolls. [/quote]

Name the schools. I’m sure there are some privates harder than some publics but around here, publics have rigorous programs. Numbers wise, there are more high achievers in publics. Obviously. [/quote]

No. I’m not outing my kids.

I take it you want me to pretend that difference didn’t occur. So weird. [/quote]

DP. Sidwell vs. Ballou ==&gt; big difference

Sidwell vs Whitman/BCC/RMIB/magnet/others ==&gt; sometimes a difference in terms of educational emphasis but not quality [/quote]

Don't the local privates try to recruit the best public school kids?

I attended a top western private school as a day student for basically the cost of the included lunch at the school after being in a magnet pre-IB program. The private school was able to get great local students that way. Most of us had an additional talent too. Mine happened to be on the athletic side but the same was true of the stars in the theater department too. They got great HS kids and admission into all of HYP and top LACs out of it (non-legacy). Here I know they recruit a ton sports wise but haven't seen them actively trying to get non-athletes in the same way.

Whitman/BCC are not the same as magnets. Unless you've had a kid in Whitman/BCC and a kid at Sidwell/GDS/Cathedral Schools, just stop. The workload is NOT the same at these schools, even if public kids are taking the most rigorous classes. Plus the grading scale, ability to retake, etc. makes getting good grades at Whitman/BCC so much easier. The PP had kids at both...why not believe her? [/quote]

Bottom dwellers (bottom 10%) at TJ would be in the top 10% at any Big3.[/quote][/quote]

No they wouldn’t.  TJ kids would not survive level of rigor in English or History classes. [/quote]

TJ kids routinely win state writing competitions. How many big3 kids could take upper level math and science classes at TJ? [/quote]

shhh they don’t want to accept that the best & brightest are at public schools[/quote]

Yet somehow the leaders of major companies, etc. in the US are not all TJ grads. [/quote]

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