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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh private schools in DC are kind of hyped in the lower grades and pretty soon middle school. Wilson has a little way to go before it could hold it's own against Sidwell. What I really want to know why are all the private school parents are obsessed with Maret? It is no different than the area public schools.

Many of the private schools have super wealthy families who bankroll FA and new buildings. If you are in a not so good school district and can't get into a good charter, then maybe you should go with FA. [/quote]

Wilson will NEVER hold its own against Sidwell.  Or any other elite private high school.  Anyone who thinks that's within the realm of possibility didn't grow up privileged and in elite prep schools.  If you want to argue diversity, etc, go ahead and play that card.  But it is INSANE to think Wilson or any public school can touch Sidwell's environment, quality of teaching, student caliber, college admissions success, resources etc.  Seriously people.  Can you be that delusional?[/quote]u

Wilson seems to be in ill favor with Kaya - like what has happened at Walls, that does not bode well.  However, if you are on the Yale (as opposed to Jail) track at Wilson, you can get a fairly decent education and with enough Honors and AP courses get into an Ivy more easily than many kids in private schools.  All colleges have their quotas - in terms of how many kids per state (unfortunate we count as one) and how many from private v. public.  I would never say they were equal - they are not - but many elite kids manage and of course race plays a part (the 13% of white kids who are in DC PS or PCS score the highest in the [b]nation[/b] on the NAEP) but private schools don't take the test.  DC is a very competitive environment for college admissions, and Wilson is one established path to get to the gold at the end of the rainbow.  So is Walls.  And hopefully Latin and BASIS will soon be up there as well.

If you feel your child will be safe, everyone knows here that public school students have the edge in admissions absent connections.  But we are at a charter and our kids will be legacies at two HYP schools and their individual educations are not suffering.  We supplement, but then we have the money to be able to afford trips to Europe etc.  If I had a kid with problems, I would absolutely get them into one of the private schools my family attended here and/or graduated from as a "lifer" so it would be hard to kick them out.  But so far so good.

AS someone who grew up in DC, and went to two private schools,[b] I do not get the obsession with Maret.  Back in the day it was absolutely a second tier school. [/b] But as someone else pointed out, in real life dollars, absent insanity, going to private school right now should still cost only $9k not 40, and I DO NOT want my kids around that type of wealth and the sense of entitlement that goes with it - although in NYC it is more money, here it is more politics.[/quote]

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