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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP but it gets so old when people claim private school parents are racist. Googled it and Wilson is 30% black. Well so is my kid’s private school class.

Of course the behavior is better. The school specifically tries not to admit “disruptive” kids in the first place, then retains the right to counsel them out when the admissions process failed. You’ll see stories about the kid of a donor or a board member being allowed to stay but that’s the exception that proves the rule. And I totally get that all that is problematic and unfair to special needs kids, but yeah, the end result is a more peaceful environment. [/quote]

Unfortunately, the disruptive kids get glowing recommendations from their previous schools because that school wants them out. Parents also make it all about the other kids at the previous school. As a private school teacher I look out for middle school girls that transfer in supposedly due to bullying at their previous school because they often are the bullies and cause nothing but drama once they get comfortable (online and at school). Same for boys transferring in lower school. Local private schools don’t care as long as parents are full pay, big donors, and the kid fits whatever profile they want for that particular grade (our school in particular was always boy heavy so admission snagged any girl they could to try to balance). [/quote]

As a former public school teacher I say again, these are exceptions that prove the rule. Just because private schools aren’t perfect at what they are trying to do (exclude kids with behavior problems) doesn’t mean they aren’t leaps and bounds ahead of public schools for behavioral problems. [/quote]

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