Thank heavens that we have board-certified psychiatrists checking up on these threads. I would have thought OP merely had a loopy sense of humor.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I agree with the last three posts, but I'm happier to know that even though I admitted I was trolling, you Jaguar parents couldn't resist! It's a perverse pleasure, I admit it. But don't stop!

Perverse indeed. (I'm not a Janney parent and hence have no horse in this race.) One can only wonder at how ineffective and miserable you must be in real life. Seriously - this is how you find your pleasure? You must be Borderline Personality Disorder and unmedicated.

Creepy.

Anonymous wrote:The teachers at the private schools may be paid less, e.g., http://712educators.about.com/od/jobopenings/a/private-public.htm , or be less qualified.

Generally true. But if you're comparing Janney to Sidwell or GDS, I don't think that's the case.

The teachers at the private schools may be paid less, e.g., http://712educators.about.com/od/jobopenings/a/private-public.htm , or be less qualified.

Anonymous wrote:Janney is on par with a big 3 private. Yes it is officially 'crowded with 24 students in a classroom for 4th and 5th grade. But anyone who goes there knows that there is rarely a day when at least 2 or 3 kids aren't absent and many of the classes have a student teacher assisting. Shhhh-it's Sidwell/GDS but free. Plus bonus, your kid can easily get into those schools after 6th grade, if that's what you want--but Deal is equally awesome.

I think that Janney and the other JKLMM schools are excellent schools, but they are not on par with "big-3" schools (Beauvoir/GDS/Sidwell) at least at the K level. The teacher:student ratio and general class sizes are better at privates. GDS has a 10:1 student:teacher ratio (two teachers, not a teacher plus an aide or two) with the average K class at 20. There is a dedicated playground for K-2 grade (1-1.5 hours of daily outdoor play), plus PE four days a week, M-TH. They have dedicated teachers who specialize in science, music, reading, and math, and who teach the K class on a weekly or bi-weekly basis; there are also weekly visits in groups of 10 to the library.

I know that the price tag for private school education is steep and controversial, but you do get more individualized attention, smaller classes, more appropriate gross motor play, and other benefits by going the private school route. For some, the $30K price tag is not worth the curriculum, but for others it is.

and let's not even get started on our dads and their footwear.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I agree with the last three posts, but I'm happier to know that even though I admitted I was trolling, you Jaguar parents couldn't resist! It's a perverse pleasure, I admit it. But don't stop!

OK OP, you asked for it. Janney is the best of the lot if you take into consideration the percentage of students scoring advanced on the DC-CAS. The percentage of advanced students is significantly higher than at other JKLM schools. Insufferable, aren't we?

That should have been the last 4 posts, but poster 4 beat me to "submit."

OP here. I agree with the last three posts, but I'm happier to know that even though I admitted I was trolling, you Jaguar parents couldn't resist! It's a perverse pleasure, I admit it. But don't stop!

Just to respond to one of the pp's, Janney is not more crowded then at least some of the other JKLMM schools. For instance, Murch is signficantly more crowded. Don't know about Lafayette or Key but I think they are also at least as crowded as Janney. I saw these figures somewhere recently although I can't think were to provide the link.

Janney rocks !

Janney's doors are unofficially shut to OOb's for the next 5 years--there literally isn't enough room for IB kids.

Janney is on par with a big 3 private. Yes it is officially 'crowded with 24 students in a classroom for 4th and 5th grade. But anyone who goes there knows that there is rarely a day when at least 2 or 3 kids aren't absent and many of the classes have a student teacher assisting. Shhhh-it's Sidwell/GDS but free. Plus bonus, your kid can easily get into those schools after 6th grade, if that's what you want--but Deal is equally awesome.

it's one of the best. But it's also massively overcrowded and is growing at a faster rate than the other JKLM schools. No one has any idea what they're going to do with all the students--next year is the first year of a mega class (a 40 student 3rd grade classroom) and it's just going to get worse and worse within the next 5 years because the lower grades are even larger.

I'm just trolling, but go ahead, you know you want to offer serious responses.