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Anonymous wrote:As someone who admits to being jealous about all sorts of money things from travel to car to home renovations I can 1000 percent say private does not make the list. I have also found the teachers are better on balance in public, esp after learning a very average classmate of mine got a job teaching at sidwell with no prior experience. (Years ago) No doubt smaller class sizes, personal attention/coddling and better facilities come with private, and there’s the occasional bad teacher in public. I’m just one of those people who has different values including socioeconomic diversity, and feels my public is more than good enough to educated kids. And I’m not alone judging by all the Uber educated and wealthy families in our local public.

You sound jealous. And a bit dumb.

Indeed! Anyone who brags about spending money on everything but their kids probably should not have had them.

Anonymous wrote:As someone who admits to being jealous about all sorts of money things from travel to car to home renovations I can 1000 percent say private does not make the list. I have also found the teachers are better on balance in public, esp after learning a very average classmate of mine got a job teaching at sidwell with no prior experience. (Years ago) No doubt smaller class sizes, personal attention/coddling and better facilities come with private, and there’s the occasional bad teacher in public. I’m just one of those people who has different values including socioeconomic diversity, and feels my public is more than good enough to educated kids. And I’m not alone judging by all the Uber educated and wealthy families in our local public.

You sound jealous. And a bit dumb.

Public really showed what trash it was during Covid. It’s focus is the teachers Union, the administrators and all their days off and retirement. They have no work assembly’s on woke ideology when they should be grading homework every day. Lazy.. slovenly and slightly smelly environment.

Anonymous wrote:We are pulling kids from private to MCPS and our private friends are all now questioning their need to stay private. It goes both ways. Grass greener thing.

I am sure they are just being polite. No one wants their kid to be " just another number" in public if they can help it.

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Anonymous wrote:We went through this a couple of times with both kids. There is jealousy and anger involved, especially if you tell them it is because of substandard MCPS.

We told people we wanted religious element in education and the satisfied them. But know that they are still steaming about it. One time I posted something on Facebook about common core and how I am glad my kids don't deal with it, and this rabid mom attacked me. She is one who asked my why I pulled my daughter out of MCPS before anyone. She also seemed happy to hear that it was religious reasons. But now she knows there are other benefits we enjoy and she is angry.

So you post something inflammatory on Facebook, and are annoyed that someone reacted to it? You can’t even see your part in this, can you?

+1000 why are you posting things like that? You are inviting the drama. People like you are SO cringe.

Why do you even have public school friends, OP? You are now better than them. Keep your nose up and move on.

We do not talk to those public school people any more.

^^^oh and i have plenty of friends with kids in private. The thought that they would be massaging their words to make me feel better is cringe

As someone who admits to being jealous about all sorts of money things from travel to car to home renovations I can 1000 percent say private does not make the list. I have also found the teachers are better on balance in public, esp after learning a very average classmate of mine got a job teaching at sidwell with no prior experience. (Years ago) No doubt smaller class sizes, personal attention/coddling and better facilities come with private, and there’s the occasional bad teacher in public. I’m just one of those people who has different values including socioeconomic diversity, and feels my public is more than good enough to educated kids. And I’m not alone judging by all the Uber educated and wealthy families in our local public.

Funny.

I sent my kid to private schools and had no issues with anyone from public school giving me a hard time. I also didn’t say anything bad about public schools.

The private schools had their issues too.

Yes, my friends are also jealous of my house, car and designer clothes/bags/jewels. That’s life.

This thread is SO cringe.

I've been on both sides of this. My kid went to public elementary and middle school and switched to private high school. When DC was in public school, I did envy friends who could afford to send their kids to private, but by "envy" I don't mean that I had any ill feelings towards these people. I just wished that we could afford to do the same starting in middle school, when I knew my kid wasn't getting the kind of academic challenge they needed. We can only afford for high school with some sacrifice. I have good friends whom I know wish they could afford private high school too because our public option is just so-so.

My kid is now at a great private school. I don't envy the parents who have to deal with our so-so public high school in the Baltimore area. I do, however, sort of envy the parents who live in areas with great, free public options or who have access to competitive magnets.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think it is awkward with parents and kids now, just wait until junior and senior year when the college admissions season is picking up steam.

And the private school parents start to complain about grade deflation and hooked kids and the unFAIRness of some other kid taking their child’s rightful place at a T20.

So tiresome.

- private school parent

Right. When the rich start to realize that their money can't buy them everything.

It buys enough.

Anyone heard rumors of another Varsity Blues like side door?