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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today I visited a good public elementary school in DC. While I understand that kids in public high schools may have some behavioral issues, what I saw at the elementary level was that this public school is much better than my current private school.

To begin with, it has four different teachers specialized in math, science, social studies, and English. At our current private school, which is considered “elite,” the homeroom teacher teaches all of those subjects, and not especially well to begin with.

Yes, class sizes are slightly bigger in the public school, but are there really any meaningful benefits to a private elementary school? At least compared with our current private school, I could not see any major advantage.[/quote]

The science class in public school meets 45 mins a week and is a joke at least in the one we went. Never heard math was taught by a different teacher. Which grade! [/quote]

I also want to know which school has different subject teachers. Although if the kids aren't grouped by ability, I don't know if that would make much difference in elementary. All elementary teachers learn how to teach all the basic subjects.[/quote]
I'm not PP, but WIS primary does foreign language study particularly well -- full immersion nursery, pre-k, and k; then every other day alternating fully with English and target language through grade 5, with a big dual-language project to end the primary years curriculum.  It also has specialized teachers for several STEAM subjects, separate from homeroom teachers.  There isn't much formal tracking within each classroom, but my children have found plenty to learn, given the breadth of subjects taught.  Very different from public (or even most private) elementary schools.[/quote]

+1 I was one of the PP (the one who +1 immersion school and added that it opened up global schools) and I completely agree with this entire take!

Also the idea of running the kids around all weekend for additional classes sounds exhausting![/quote]

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