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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in MCPS because she’s getting a pretty solid education and she has a really great social network of friends and their parents who live in our neighborhood within walking/biking distance. Losing that community would be a very serious negative for switching to private. It’s just not possible to maintain as close of a group/community when not in the same school. Also, kid is old enough to weigh in and strongly wanted to remain in MCPS though older sib switched to private in MS. There were some differences re: academic needs but the bigger difference between the two situations was social. [/quote]

The social piece of it is probably the biggest for us. I sent my first to a fancy preschool about 20 minutes from us and it was just a night and day difference compared to the social aspect of school friends in the neighborhood or a 3 minute drive away. For my kids that’s an important piece. My oldest is also very advanced in math and had compacted math which was the right pace for them or possibly not accelerated enough. We looked into the private schools near us and none had an advanced track that seemed comparable. However my younger child will not have those advanced options available since ELC was replaced by on-level instruction based on excerpts instead of real books and compacted math is no more. We are seriously considering private for that child though I expect them to fight us because they will want to stay with their friends. I know several families in the same boat- decent MCPS experiences for their older kids and continuously worse experiences for their younger ones so they are looking into private for the first time. It’s all such a shame. We have had good teachers in general, it’s these decisions coming down from the central office that ruin everything. [/quote]

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