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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny how public v private pretty much makes zero difference when actually out in the workforce.  I see no evidence that private school kids in my field are better critical thinkers, etc. [/quote]

On the contrary - I can almost always tell when a job applicant to my firm has gone to private school by their cover letter and writing sample.[/quote]

If your firm is Dairy Queen or the movie theater hiring HS kids, sure.  If your firm is a normal business hiring college grads, the quality of education at college would be more important than HS, never mind ES.  And if your firm is a law firm, then you are simply full of it, since college and law school is going to be vastly more important since a kid graduated with honors from HLS clearly wasn't held back by deficiencies in early ed.[/quote]

I completely disagree with this.  I'm not PP who wrote this, but I developed my grammar skills in middle school and writing skills in HS.  I went to a private school and we wrote and rewrote and rewrote, again and again and again.  College did nothing to further these skills.

[b]I was a fairly average student at my school.  In my college Freshman English class after grading my first paper, my professor asked if I would help tutor other students.[/b]  I received an A in legal writing in law school with little effort while my friends, even those who had gone to top colleges, didn't do as well.  Another difference is presentation skills.  The private school kids seem to have greater poise.  I suspect this is because they do more presentations and have more opportunities to take such as speech and drama.  [/quote]
College professor here. I agree completely. It's pretty rare that a kid's writing and grammar are drastically changed in college. That stuff is very much developed K-12. [/quote]

+1.

I attended public school and I always hate the idea of paying 43k/year for private school, until my oldest child graduated from James Madison HS and attended UVa.  The writing was horrible like mine and became an engineer

The 2nd child attended the 43k/year private, went to U. of Chicago and is now a lawyer.

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