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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Sorry- to clarify we will be going public in 1st grade either way. We are in a great school district.

Kindergarten teacher again. I didn't see this reply. Do your homework because plenty of people go on a school's reputation and not specifics. Is it a "good" school because mostly white, UMC kids go there? If so, look further.

And what is so bad about that? If the school has high performing scores, you would turn it down due to lack of diversity?

Nope. I turn it down because of the crappy choices in curriculum. Look closely at what is used for literacy instruction. Lots and lots of kids are not taught to read and kids in wealthier areas end up supplementing with tutors so nobody knows how terrible the curriculum is.

I wonder about this too. How much of a "good school's" test scores are being artificially propped up by parents who do a little parallel schooling at home after school, on weekends and/or over the summers? I do this with my kids and I know at least half a dozen other kids in my DD's class whose parents got their own little stack of workbooks. One classmate apparently brings them to school to do at school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Sorry- to clarify we will be going public in 1st grade either way. We are in a great school district.

Kindergarten teacher again. I didn't see this reply. Do your homework because plenty of people go on a school's reputation and not specifics. Is it a "good" school because mostly white, UMC kids go there? If so, look further.

And what is so bad about that? If the school has high performing scores, you would turn it down due to lack of diversity?

Nope. I turn it down because of the crappy choices in curriculum. Look closely at what is used for literacy instruction. Lots and lots of kids are not taught to read and kids in wealthier areas end up supplementing with tutors so nobody knows how terrible the curriculum is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Sorry- to clarify we will be going public in 1st grade either way. We are in a great school district.

Kindergarten teacher again. I didn't see this reply. Do your homework because plenty of people go on a school's reputation and not specifics. Is it a "good" school because mostly white, UMC kids go there? If so, look further.

And what is so bad about that? If the school has high performing scores, you would turn it down due to lack of diversity?

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Sorry- to clarify we will be going public in 1st grade either way. We are in a great school district.

Kindergarten teacher again. I didn't see this reply. Do your homework because plenty of people go on a school's reputation and not specifics. Is it a "good" school because mostly white, UMC kids go there? If so, look further.

Anonymous wrote:Current school, no questions asked. The uncertainty of the before / after care would be enough of a headache to stay out (on top of the walking to school - that is clutch!)

Stay at the current school.


-a public school kindergarten teacher

Definitely the current school. Only caveat is if there are money aoes but it wasn't mentioned in your post.

Any new program will have issues during the first year. These usually are sorted out by the 2nd year, if a well-run school. So if it were me, I would keep my DC at the same known-good private, at least thru K.