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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a big proponent of public schools, and feel that I already pay a lot of money to live in Arlington and should take advantage of the school system, but we made the difficult choice to send our child to private school because we have really seen a decline in APS.  In our personal experience, which isn't true for everyone, but we found the schools are too crowded, they push math so hard and gloss over the basics, writing isn't emphasized at all.  There is very little personalized attention.  Teachers are overworked and because they have so many students, they either just hand out multiple choice tests because they are easier to grade, or the grades from papers take weeks and weeks to come back, and the kids don't know if they are on the right track.  We've also seen a lot of social issues - drugs, alcohol, bullying, etc. that hasn't really been addressed.  Of course, those things will always be present in high schools - both public and private, but we were disappointed in what we were seeing and made the change to a smaller, more accountable system.[/quote]

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