Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know people who are deemed as highly intelligent who buy Teslas, but their kids go to very crappy schools.

I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe that education is not important, maybe they think academics are not that important and they are teaching kids the necessary skills themselves. Who knows.

In our private school many kids go to the same state schools as the public school kids.

Aren't you sort of contradicting yourself here? Why does it matter if a kid goes to private school if he or she will just end up at VT, JM, or College Park anyway?

This is da truth and nothing but the truth

Anonymous wrote:I think it's (or should be) child dependent. If your child is struggling in public but you could super easily afford private for smaller class sizes etc., then I do kind of judge your choices.

It absolutely should be child dependent. My kid struggled at his private school and thrived in our neighborhood public school. I have very set ideas about what type of school was best for my kid and I was 100% wrong. The private school wasn't working so we decided to give the public school a try. It was terrific for my kid. You have to do what is right for your kid and your family. Thankfully, if you have money, you have options.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know people who are deemed as highly intelligent who buy Teslas, but their kids go to very crappy schools.

I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe that education is not important, maybe they think academics are not that important and they are teaching kids the necessary skills themselves. Who knows.

In our private school many kids go to the same state schools as the public school kids.

Aren't you sort of contradicting yourself here? Why does it matter if a kid goes to private school if he or she will just end up at VT, JM, or College Park anyway?

DP. We don't send our kids to private schools for some anticipated college outcome. We send our children to private schools for the experiences they'll have during the K-12 years.

Ok. My kids like their public school. Could it be more rigorous? Sure. But it doesn’t matter - they are happy and it’s free.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know people who are deemed as highly intelligent who buy Teslas, but their kids go to very crappy schools.

I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe that education is not important, maybe they think academics are not that important and they are teaching kids the necessary skills themselves. Who knows.

In our private school many kids go to the same state schools as the public school kids.

Aren't you sort of contradicting yourself here? Why does it matter if a kid goes to private school if he or she will just end up at VT, JM, or College Park anyway?

DP. We don't send our kids to private schools for some anticipated college outcome. We send our children to private schools for the experiences they'll have during the K-12 years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb post.

Lots of rich people don’t send their kids to private school for all sorts of reasons.

+1. I've actually noticed that there seems to be a trend where parents who attended private school end of sending their kids to public school, and vice versa. (The exception is for Catholic schools, where families seem to continue the tradition with each generation.)

I notice the opposite. Those who attended private school send their kids to private because it’s what’s familiar. DH and I were both lifers at private. We seriously considered sending our kids to “top” elementary until we took a tour. It was so different from any educational environment I had experienced, the facility lacked warmth and felt institutional, the classes were crowded with close to 30 kids, the cafeteria was chaotic and the food looked disgusting, the playground wasn’t very nice. The principle wasn’t welcoming and I got the impression she’d be happy if everyone on the tour chose another option so she had fewer kids at her school.

This is confirmation bias at its finest. You were only looking for the bad things in the public school. You saw what you believed.

Anonymous wrote:I know people who are deemed as highly intelligent who buy Teslas, but their kids go to very crappy schools.

I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe that education is not important, maybe they think academics are not that important and they are teaching kids the necessary skills themselves. Who knows.

In our private school many kids go to the same state schools as the public school kids.

Aren't you sort of contradicting yourself here? Why does it matter if a kid goes to private school if he or she will just end up at VT, JM, or College Park anyway?

I know people who are deemed as highly intelligent who buy Teslas, but their kids go to very crappy schools.

I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe that education is not important, maybe they think academics are not that important and they are teaching kids the necessary skills themselves. Who knows.

In our private school many kids go to the same state schools as the public school kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe in public schools.

Full stop.

It actually seriously annoys me how many of my neighbors (CCMD, the named part) send their kids to private school. It’s like you have all the resources to build a strong community resource but your ego wins?!?

I fully believe in public schools, too. In fact, I teach in one. I have taught there for almost 20 years.

And we send our children to private schools. You can do both. It doesn't compromise my value system at all. Our children go to the privates they go to because those schools offer common value systems that our local public schools (in the system where I teach) don't.

such as?

POC here. We are in MCPS and my oldest did a year in public before we moved to private school (where my others all then started).

My kids’ private talks about diversity and skin color and it is integrated into the curriculum. They have teachers who are POC. They talk about values more explicitly.

I only went to public schools growing up, as did my DH. We got excellent public school educations. However, I was subjected to many racist remarks from classmates and teachers, many sexist remarks, and that was awful and difficult. Our overwhelmingly white local public school (in Whitman cluster) which (I’m told by my POC friends) awkwardly engages with race in the curriculum is not somewhere I want to send my kids.

We think the tuition is more than worth the value. But I also recognize that other families have kids who are thriving at our local public, so I understand that different people value these things differently.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb post.

Lots of rich people don’t send their kids to private school for all sorts of reasons.

+1. I've actually noticed that there seems to be a trend where parents who attended private school end of sending their kids to public school, and vice versa. (The exception is for Catholic schools, where families seem to continue the tradition with each generation.)

I notice the opposite. Those who attended private school send their kids to private because it’s what’s familiar. DH and I were both lifers at private. We seriously considered sending our kids to “top” elementary until we took a tour. It was so different from any educational environment I had experienced, the facility lacked warmth and felt institutional, the classes were crowded with close to 30 kids, the cafeteria was chaotic and the food looked disgusting, the playground wasn’t very nice. The principle wasn’t welcoming and I got the impression she’d be happy if everyone on the tour chose another option so she had fewer kids at her school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe in public schools.

Full stop.

It actually seriously annoys me how many of my neighbors (CCMD, the named part) send their kids to private school. It’s like you have all the resources to build a strong community resource but your ego wins?!?

I fully believe in public schools, too. In fact, I teach in one. I have taught there for almost 20 years.

And we send our children to private schools. You can do both. It doesn't compromise my value system at all. Our children go to the privates they go to because those schools offer common value systems that our local public schools (in the system where I teach) don't.

such as?

For sure pp is either referring to “CRT” or transgender issues.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb post.

Lots of rich people don’t send their kids to private school for all sorts of reasons.

+1. I've actually noticed that there seems to be a trend where parents who attended private school end of sending their kids to public school, and vice versa. (The exception is for Catholic schools, where families seem to continue the tradition with each generation.)

Everyone I know (now) who uses Catholic school isn’t even Catholic - it’s just a cheaper private for them. Maybe a generation ago it was mostly Catholics at catholic school but not now.

…and non Christian’s don’t mind when their pre schooler comes home and says “Jesus loves me” so as long as
the tuition is cheap.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe in public schools.

Full stop.

It actually seriously annoys me how many of my neighbors (CCMD, the named part) send their kids to private school. It’s like you have all the resources to build a strong community resource but your ego wins?!?

I fully believe in public schools, too. In fact, I teach in one. I have taught there for almost 20 years.

And we send our children to private schools. You can do both. It doesn't compromise my value system at all. Our children go to the privates they go to because those schools offer common value systems that our local public schools (in the system where I teach) don't.

such as?

City of Alexandria.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe in public schools.

Full stop.

It actually seriously annoys me how many of my neighbors (CCMD, the named part) send their kids to private school. It’s like you have all the resources to build a strong community resource but your ego wins?!?

I fully believe in public schools, too. In fact, I teach in one. I have taught there for almost 20 years.

And we send our children to private schools. You can do both. It doesn't compromise my value system at all. Our children go to the privates they go to because those schools offer common value systems that our local public schools (in the system where I teach) don't.

such as?

Anonymous wrote:I believe in public schools.

Full stop.

It actually seriously annoys me how many of my neighbors (CCMD, the named part) send their kids to private school. It’s like you have all the resources to build a strong community resource but your ego wins?!?

I fully believe in public schools, too. In fact, I teach in one. I have taught there for almost 20 years.

And we send our children to private schools. You can do both. It doesn't compromise my value system at all. Our children go to the privates they go to because those schools offer common value systems that our local public schools (in the system where I teach) don't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb post.

Lots of rich people don’t send their kids to private school for all sorts of reasons.

Some of the public schools are better than private schools. Why do you think people pay $$$$ to live in certain school districts?

A lot of people in high tax states like NY and NJ do this. Those states have neighborhood schools and no ability for people outside the zoned areas to attend. It’s about as restricted and exclusive as you can get, and the education is top notch.

That explains why they arrested one parent for sending her kid to school

Link?

https://www.yahoo.com/video/mom-went-prison-enrolling-her-191400017.html

Additionally, the return on buying prime real estate in desirable school districts could be a better investment than pouring money into a private school education. (I say this as someone with two kids in private.)