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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I’ve never understood why wealthy people send their kids to public schools when they can afford private[/b]. They’ll spend big bucks on everything else but not education. To me, that’s backwards. I’m DCUM poor and I send my kid to private school. Aside from his health, nothing is more important than an education. You can’t go back and do it again. I won’t care too much if he has to do DL because his school did a great job last year especially last minute. They are paying teachers to come back a week early so they can have two weeks to prepare for DL since it will probably happen sometime this fall. I’m a public school teacher and they would never pay us a dime to do anything. They try to guilt us into take DL courses this summer for free. You get what you pay for. I think people are seeing this now.[/quote]

Because while private schools can do some things better than public schools, [b]there are some things that they cannot replicate[/b].

I would never send my kids to private school.  My brother is sending his kids to private school and is realizing [b]the problem[/b], but feels locked in.  [/quote]

Like what?[/quote]My large public high school had a much stronger music program (full orchestra, award winning marching band) than any of the local private schools, which were much smaller in size.  It also had more advanced and specialized science, math and language classes because it had enough students to fill these classes.  Smaller local privates only offered those courses as independent studies.  Some sports also lend themselves to larger public schools (e.g., football).  The same for theatre--my large public school put on a full musical with a live pit orchestra every year.  Most local privates weren't large enough to do this.

I'm sure there are private schools with those offerings, but many cannot replicate those offerings.[/quote]

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