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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So setting aside your earlier post, do you have any insight on why so many public school parents throw unprovoked anti-private jabs?[/quote]
Thanks for the point of view.  I'm the poster you're responding to. Frankly, I saw this whole thread as a joke.  So I didn't think it was a question of making "intelligent" comments![/quote]
Wait!  Don't go!  You seem like a rational person with a good perspective on the situation.  Do you have an answer to the question I posed?  Any guesses?[/quote]

I'm the poster you're responding too, I think.  It's probably the case that some posters are bitter that their kid was rejected.  Although given that some private schools are desperate for kids (I know of a few), it's pretty hard to get rejected from "private schools" as a whole group.  So you'd have to make this argument into bitterness about being rejected from a top 3, which does obviously happen a lot, and then you have a parent who is faced with the difficult choice of a sub-par private versus a sub-par public, and this probably does lead to bitterness.  Others may be bitter that other families have the money for tuition and they don't.

Others of us are happy about our choices.  My math-oriented kid gets the math and computer coursework he craves in a MoCo magnet.  Still others favor public schools for ideological reasons.  Although we're liberal, we don't fall into this camp because we've done private, as I said (which also means we're not in the group who is bitter about not being able to afford private).

And then there are people like me who post without really thinking about the implications of mentioning public schools on the private board.  I put maybe 10 seconds of thought into my post, because I assumed the whole thread was a joke.

Of course, there is another side of the coin - idiots who are nasty to public school parents, as exemplified by the idiot who posted about public school parents buying large houses instead of paying tuition![/quote]

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