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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at Deal and we’re about to pay $$ for a big3 school instead of Wilson.  However, this week is DCPS spring break and many people I know are taking their kids around to accepted schools to make their college decisions.  These kids from Wilson were accepted at Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Michigan, UCLA, NYU, Vassar, Pomona, Cornell, Brown, Oberlin and Swarthmore.  Typical smart white kids.   Nothing out of the ordinary.  And this is just the handful of kids I know from my block and/or siblings of kids from our DCPS elementary.   So why am I paying for private next year again?   I’ve found Deal to be uneven at best but it doesn’t seem to make one bit of difference (if college admission is the end game). [/quote]

Community, safety, small classes, hands on learning, small advisory groups, few behavioral issues - nothing like in public, beautiful campus and buildings, resources, and reinforcement of our values are what we are looking for in private. [b]Top of the list my child is not worried about being jumped in the bathroom anymore because they posed off the wrong group of kids[/b]. [/quote]

Parent of a Wilson senior here: WTH are you talking about??? Oh wait, now I remember. This is the lie you tell yourself to feel better about dropping tens of thousands of dollars for private.

#GoTigers![/quote]

I’m grateful I don’t have to worry about my kid getting jumped by kids in the bathroom yes kids worry about this and my kid also doesn’t need to worry about their peers overdosing while at school and watching the ambulance come. Also our school doesn’t keep kids in the school that were caught on video gang attacking someone on the subway. There’s a video of it and they were allowed to stay in school. Safety first. [/quote]

As a parent of a private school student, this is just embarrassing. [/quote]

+1.

-a parent who has done public and private[/quote]

DP. Why embarrassed? It is true. Read the paper. 5 kids overdosed at Wilson school last year in class during the school day. Also, the video of 6 kids beating up a man on the subway is also true. Not to mention kids allowed to stay at the school after physical altercations.  [/quote]

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