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[quote=Anonymous]The biggest difference in the Bowie public versus private schools is the facilities. As mentioned, the Bowie public facilities leave MUCH to be desired. Academically, privates do not take standardized tests and do have to regularly share academic data like public schools do. If they did, many people would be surprised that there is not a significant (if any) difference in how students at popular Bowie privates (HT, Pius, Reid Temple) are performing versus students at higher performing public schools in the area. Our class size for K - 2 has also been smaller than all of our friends at privates in those grades respectively.

We’ve done an Annapolis private and our local Bowie public school, and outside of the facilities that don’t even compare the academic rigor was similar. One thing I will say about both Bowie private and public schools is that there is often a shared philosophy with a focus on “sit and get” type of work versus hands on learning that you see in other higher performing districts.

All this to say many of the popular privates in the area benefit greatly from the lack of options. Outside of this area they are honestly not that great nor do they offer anything groundbreaking. [/quote]

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