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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the responders and public schools are imploding. This simply is not true. We have one in private and one in public. Our public kid is actually doing better and less stressed then our private. He got into a top 20 university and is it out going, funny, smart and has a great group of friends. He played ultimate frisbee, school newspaper,participated in a Jackson Reed a Academy. There was one semester that he really had to get support from his counselor to get the classes organized the way he wanted them to be. He took APs off the and is awesome.He couldn’t be more happy from his experience.
Also  this year’s Princeton Pine award went to a Jackson Reed graduate who graduated four years ago. My private school kid is also doing fine and well the experience is different there’s ways to feel successful in both. You all act like public schools are horrible. Have you ever stepped foot in one? Or sat in the classroom?[/quote]

Did he have teachers in all his classes or months without some?  I'm a long-term DCPS parent (15 years) with a high schooler now in private and honestly, this is my big fear of JR.  Months (if not an entire year) of sitting in a core subject without a teacher.  I know a half dozen kids this happened to over the past 2 years. [/quote]
 Another parent with one in public and one in a coveted private. Size of the grade is a huge difference but there are positives to both. Depends on the kid and what sort of classes interest them, how independent they are, what ECs they want to do, etc. We have been so pleasantly surprised by how excellent the teachers are at the MCPS my HS child is at. No gaps in instruction at all as mentioned in concern by PP above. No place is perfect and all teens need guidance dealing with what is happening with kids these days, but the good publics in this area should not be avoided as if they are the plague. Lots of kids are doing well at these schools.[/quote]

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