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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I figure the majority of responses on these threads are trolls. My kids are in private school now. They were in public elementary and it didn't go so great. My expectations for public education were way too high for what it actually was.

I can't imagine going back to public. It's strange people think it isn't worth it. We have never looked back. Smaller classes, agility during covid, less politics, more funding and more opportunities.

Where are these unicorn public schools everyone goes to? We didn't have this experience in Annapolis.[/quote]

Our public we are happy with is in Illinois.  Math offerings better than our DC private, language arts are great (lots of writing and explicit grammar instruction), daily PE, 2x/week art/music, 1x/week tech/library.  Class sizes are decent (22 or less for all my kids, this may be better in some privates depending on the school).  Experienced teachers.  We have been happy and feel our needs and wants are being met, including some of the things we specifically went private for in the DMV.  IL has a large handful of public districts that the DCUM crowd would probably consider acceptable...?  NY, NJ, CT, PA, MA, possibly other parts of NE, and also liked many other suburban areas in the sun belt, midwest, CO, etc. all have at least some districts like this.  IMHO, this type of smaller district serves kids like mine very well.  Feels like a medium between DC area privates and DMV publics.  [/quote]

Yes, the key is the small town-based districts. Not the gargantuan ones that serve 200k kids (not very well). I really wish they would cut them down in size [/quote]

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