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[quote=Anonymous]Op, DH and I both products of public school, we live in a wealthy school district in MoCo, and send our kids to private with grandparents paying. Kids are at a k-8.

I think you can get an amazing education at public or private schools in this area. But they really are different experiences. For our family, we live in a wealthy neighborhood so kids are actually getting more socioeconomic diversity at private school, but I know that’s not typically the case.

We have good friends who have kids in MCPS and there are structural differences in elementary school and middle school. For private school, they get PE every day (in addition to recess), and they get more than 1x per week Art, music, PE, and science class. The class sizes are small and my kids know all the teachers and kids, and the heads of school. Our local elementary was large (120-140 kids per grade) and the kids don’t know all the teachers because their is turnover and they don’t have a chance to meet them all.

In middle school, kids all have to take a language, music, art, PE and a sport. They can take drama and clubs mostly meet during the school day, so kids can participate easily. In MCPS, in middle school the kids get two electives (pick a language or music and then I think there is one you rotate through some subjects) and I don’t think you can do sports until you are older.

From a parent perspective, teachers and admin at private are responsive and will meet with you about your child, including at least 2 in person conferences. At our public  elementary, there is only one meeting with the teacher and then some are very good/responsive to email and some are not. My sense from my friends is that parents are not really interacting with the teachers a lot because the parents are not really going into the school on a regular basis - the kids go in alone and then come out as a class but without the teachers.

This may all be different if you are not in MCPS or a different school.

There are smart kids and caring parents in both communities. My friends are very happy with their kids public school education and we are very happy with our private school. We would probably pay for it if the grandparent didn’t, but I’m very thankful they are willing to pay - our k-8 feels like it’s focused on keeping the kids young, and lots of playground play after school, not many kids in middle school have cell phones, and it really feels like a small and caring community. [/quote]

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