I think given the state of MCPS, judging parents for sending kids to private is silly regardless of reason. And no MCPS is no longer a top tier school district

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason for privates is to segregate from poor people in the name of Jesus. This is what is wrong with the world. Thank a richer today for the state of the world.

Well, you won’t find Jesus inside of a public school today.

(Not saying that is a bad thing, but education on your religion is a reason some people select religious, private schools.)

Say what you will about Catholic schools, and of course there are exceptions, but they are so much closer to the ideal of universal education than other area privates. Even Prep.

As far as Jesus in publics, maybe not literally, but I've seen more of that in spirit at least. When you know you can't "counsel out" a child, you become a lot more committed to their success. Publics have to educate, after all, "the least of my people".

In contrast, top privates provide a kind of moral anti-education that you need to consciously counter as a parent.

“The least of my people” how pretentious. MCPS is incredible and anyone saying otherwise isn’t right

This is intended to point out that public school serve absolutely everybody, and cannot turn people away. I think you misinterpreted this as a comment on the average student, which it most certainly is not.

I am hoping that Maryland will go the route where private schools also can’t turn people away.

What??? Then it will just go to the highest bidder... sure you can be educated here, but you have to pay the $100K per year tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason for privates is to segregate from poor people in the name of Jesus. This is what is wrong with the world. Thank a richer today for the state of the world.

Well, you won’t find Jesus inside of a public school today.

(Not saying that is a bad thing, but education on your religion is a reason some people select religious, private schools.)

Say what you will about Catholic schools, and of course there are exceptions, but they are so much closer to the ideal of universal education than other area privates. Even Prep.

As far as Jesus in publics, maybe not literally, but I've seen more of that in spirit at least. When you know you can't "counsel out" a child, you become a lot more committed to their success. Publics have to educate, after all, "the least of my people".

In contrast, top privates provide a kind of moral anti-education that you need to consciously counter as a parent.

“The least of my people” how pretentious. MCPS is incredible and anyone saying otherwise isn’t right

This is intended to point out that public school serve absolutely everybody, and cannot turn people away. I think you misinterpreted this as a comment on the average student, which it most certainly is not.

I am hoping that Maryland will go the route where private schools also can’t turn people away.

How could it still be private school if they can’t turn people away? Isn’t that part of the draw of private school - not everyone gets in if they aren’t a good fit?

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason for privates is to segregate from poor people in the name of Jesus. This is what is wrong with the world. Thank a richer today for the state of the world.

Well, you won’t find Jesus inside of a public school today.

(Not saying that is a bad thing, but education on your religion is a reason some people select religious, private schools.)

Say what you will about Catholic schools, and of course there are exceptions, but they are so much closer to the ideal of universal education than other area privates. Even Prep.

As far as Jesus in publics, maybe not literally, but I've seen more of that in spirit at least. When you know you can't "counsel out" a child, you become a lot more committed to their success. Publics have to educate, after all, "the least of my people".

In contrast, top privates provide a kind of moral anti-education that you need to consciously counter as a parent.

“The least of my people” how pretentious. MCPS is incredible and anyone saying otherwise isn’t right

This is intended to point out that public school serve absolutely everybody, and cannot turn people away. I think you misinterpreted this as a comment on the average student, which it most certainly is not.

I am hoping that Maryland will go the route where private schools also can’t turn people away.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the more idiotic threads. Love how the OP feels entitled to judge as right and wrong the reasons for families to make this personal choice. I think this more than a lot of other ridiculous posts on the private school forum says a lot about private school parent mentality. Well done. I love transparency.

And calling something “idiotic” isn’t entitled?

Blunt criticism of poor content or entitled
potato patahto

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason for privates is to segregate from poor people in the name of Jesus. This is what is wrong with the world. Thank a richer today for the state of the world.

Well, you won’t find Jesus inside of a public school today.

(Not saying that is a bad thing, but education on your religion is a reason some people select religious, private schools.)

Say what you will about Catholic schools, and of course there are exceptions, but they are so much closer to the ideal of universal education than other area privates. Even Prep.

As far as Jesus in publics, maybe not literally, but I've seen more of that in spirit at least. When you know you can't "counsel out" a child, you become a lot more committed to their success. Publics have to educate, after all, "the least of my people".

In contrast, top privates provide a kind of moral anti-education that you need to consciously counter as a parent.

“The least of my people” how pretentious. MCPS is incredible and anyone saying otherwise isn’t right

This is intended to point out that public school serve absolutely everybody, and cannot turn people away. I think you misinterpreted this as a comment on the average student, which it most certainly is not.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason for privates is to segregate from poor people in the name of Jesus. This is what is wrong with the world. Thank a richer today for the state of the world.

Well, you won’t find Jesus inside of a public school today.

(Not saying that is a bad thing, but education on your religion is a reason some people select religious, private schools.)

Say what you will about Catholic schools, and of course there are exceptions, but they are so much closer to the ideal of universal education than other area privates. Even Prep.

As far as Jesus in publics, maybe not literally, but I've seen more of that in spirit at least. When you know you can't "counsel out" a child, you become a lot more committed to their success. Publics have to educate, after all, "the least of my people".

In contrast, top privates provide a kind of moral anti-education that you need to consciously counter as a parent.

“The least of my people” how pretentious. MCPS is incredible and anyone saying otherwise isn’t right

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason for privates is to segregate from poor people in the name of Jesus. This is what is wrong with the world. Thank a richer today for the state of the world.

Well, you won’t find Jesus inside of a public school today.

(Not saying that is a bad thing, but education on your religion is a reason some people select religious, private schools.)

Say what you will about Catholic schools, and of course there are exceptions, but they are so much closer to the ideal of universal education than other area privates. Even Prep.

As far as Jesus in publics, maybe not literally, but I've seen more of that in spirit at least. When you know you can't "counsel out" a child, you become a lot more committed to their success. Publics have to educate, after all, "the least of my people".

In contrast, top privates provide a kind of moral anti-education that you need to consciously counter as a parent.

Anonymous wrote:One of the more idiotic threads. Love how the OP feels entitled to judge as right and wrong the reasons for families to make this personal choice. I think this more than a lot of other ridiculous posts on the private school forum says a lot about private school parent mentality. Well done. I love transparency.

And calling something “idiotic” isn’t entitled?

Anonymous wrote:The only reason for privates is to segregate from poor people in the name of Jesus. This is what is wrong with the world. Thank a richer today for the state of the world.

Well, you won’t find Jesus inside of a public school today.

(Not saying that is a bad thing, but education on your religion is a reason some people select religious, private schools.)

Anonymous wrote:It depends on which private school, but I think the poster’s point is a valid one…especially when it comes to elementary school. Public school at the elementary level is generally better, but too many folks balk at the very thought of doing public school and want to jump on the private school pipeline in the early stages…and many find out too late that it’s at their detriment.

In FCPS public school at the elementary level is entirely lacking in grammar instruction (except some random on-a-screen stuff from Lexia), the "knowledge based curriculum" for upper grades ELA is not that great and my older kids suffered years of Lucy Calkins before they went to the current curriculum, homework and classwork as actually having to fill out PowerPoints is given by some teachers to some kids as young as the primary grades, handwriting instruction is uneven at best and lacking at worst. Science is life cycles and kids doing presentations to teach actual content standards to other kids, not direct instruction.

The math is decent, especially with a good teacher.

Our middle of the road private corrects those deficits and has better-than-gen-ed, slightly-worse-than-AAP math.

High school is where it won't be able to compete.

One of the more idiotic threads. Love how the OP feels entitled to judge as right and wrong the reasons for families to make this personal choice. I think this more than a lot of other ridiculous posts on the private school forum says a lot about private school parent mentality. Well done. I love transparency.

People choose schools for all kinds of reasons and could care less about what you think

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason for privates is to segregate from poor people in the name of Jesus. This is what is wrong with the world. Thank a richer today for the state of the world.

Nah. I’m in wealthy area with less than 5% farms and pulled my DC out of public to go to cheap religious private. DC is learning the 3 Rs instead of how to tap and swipe.

Is the tech in publics that bad?

Can’t speak for other districts but the problem with MCPS is that there are literally no county wide standards for tech use. There aren’t even uniform standards within a given school! It’s essentially up to the teacher. Some teachers are incredible and rely very little on Chromebooks. At the other extreme are those who just take advantage of the availability of tech and plop their students on it for 6 hours a day. In those cases if kids finish their work early they often end up just playing games or streaming videos during classroom time…And then there are myriad teachers somewhere in between, who probably still have their kids on screens cumulatively for a few hours a day. As a parent you have no control, no say, and it’s luck of the draw which type of classroom your kiddo ends up in.

While plenty of private schools overuse tech, there is at least more transparency and consistency. You can seek out those schools that are more “tech lite,” and will at least have a sense of predictability as to how much time your kid will actually be on a device.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah it’s nice not to have any MAGA at sidwell but there are other reasons to like it and go there

So diversity is great, just not diversity of political beliefs, got it. Sounds super "inclusive" lol.

All dc natives are more than fine with Rockefeller or even Romney republicans but yes, I would love it if there were no maga at all the privates that our kids attend. Anyhow this is an amusing thread