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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sad thing  -- regardless of SAT scores and advanced math -- is that at the end of the day,  the vast majority of public school students will be working for the private school students. So keep plugging away, kids! Signed, middle class mom.[/quote]

That's a truly obnoxious statement. Showing your true color. [/quote]

Public school mom all the way, and there is a sort of truth here. We all know SES is the single greatest predictor of academic success. So do I think that parents who have enough disposable income to pay for an elite DC private will have kids who excel academically and go to great colleges? Sure. But I don't think it's because they went private.  They would probably end up in the same college out of any FCPS or MCPS HS.  I think it's because mom and dad have money. And I have certainly seen that affluent public school kids keep pace with their private school counterparts through college admissions, grad school and into the workforce. The difference comes in for the kids who are not from affluent families. Upward educational, and therefore economic mobility are very, very hard. Look at TJ for a minute. FCPS is just under the 30% FARMs. 1.8% of the class of 2020 admits are FARMS though-- despite aggressive outreach, free TJ prep and testing fees, etc (also only 16 of the 480 kids in the class of 2020 are black or Hispanic). [/quote]

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