Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 09:55     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:I went to an Ivy League school from a public school education in NJ. The DMV is different. I would absolutely send my kid to private.


Times have changed especially post covid and with families leaving Manhattan. In NJ now, and we switched to private where admissions have never been more challenging.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 09:53     Subject: Re:I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did you make up your mind OP? Are you going to start preparing to apply to private schools in the coming school year?


We will do a few applications for my middle child. It is an entry year for him. Not sure if we should do applications for my youngest.

My oldest is adamant about not switching to private. He does not want to leave his friend group.


So he does have friends at his school, they just don’t live in the neighborhood?
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 09:52     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Op, you moved to the wrong area, that's all
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 09:43     Subject: Re:I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:Did you make up your mind OP? Are you going to start preparing to apply to private schools in the coming school year?


We will do a few applications for my middle child. It is an entry year for him. Not sure if we should do applications for my youngest.

My oldest is adamant about not switching to private. He does not want to leave his friend group.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 09:40     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:You have the "Joneses" and that's not a good thing. Many have faltered with the disease. You do what is best for your kid not what others are doing. Private did provide a peace of mind during the pandemic peak. Things should return to normal this year. I hope you don't think privates are some utopian society.


I am not trying to keep up with the Joneses at all. This is entirely about quality of education and what would be best for my children.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 09:22     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:If I could go back I might switch for elementary school, but I think the public high schools are really good.

It seems like such a hassle to commute to the private schools when there are perfectly fine neighborhood schools.


Op here. I was not a fan of Potomac when I toured. Little Langley is only K-8. That leaves Basis McLean and schools in MD and DC. The commute gives me great pause. We live in a high traffic area and the American legion bridge construction has made traffic much much worse and it has barely begun.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 08:20     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
If I could go back I might switch for elementary school, but I think the public high schools are really good.

It seems like such a hassle to commute to the private schools when there are perfectly fine neighborhood schools.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 08:04     Subject: Re:I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
A lot of behavior problem kids are sent to private school to get them more support. And teachers are teachers. I know plenty of teachers that used to teach at private but switched to public for better pay.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2022 07:50     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Depends on the child. We send ours to private because both have ADHD and we don’t have to jump through hoops to get them help. The school follows the recommendations, creates a plan for them, and creates an environment to help them achieve their best even though it’s not a specialized school for learning differences.

If they were traditional, neurotypical learners, they would most likely be in public.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2022 21:40     Subject: Re:I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well, you moved somewhere to be around rich people because you thought they were better. Don’t be surprised that the people around you choose to put their kids with even richer people because they think they are even better.


You sound fun.


NP I actually thought it was an astute comment.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2022 21:40     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:I went to an Ivy League school from a public school education in NJ. The DMV is different. I would absolutely send my kid to private.


Different how?
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2022 14:28     Subject: Re:I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:Uneducated people do not understand how to properly educate children. Education begins and ends at home. School is only a supplement. Private is a waste of money. A well-educated individual has a free education, learning from everything in life. All of life is an education, if you understand how to teach. I could read and comprehend poetry at age two. My parents bought a set of encyclopedias for my gift at birth. I raised six well-educated individuals. My Mother created a program to reverse dyslexia in my youngest. He was reading, writing, and comprehending on a college level by middle school. I grew up in a hollow in the Appalachian Mountains. Low-income and wealthy.....surrounded by books and nature and freedom. I know everything. There's nothing I can't do, or figure out how to do. Don't waste money on private. Spend your money educating your kids properly. You'll raise individual freethinkers who aren't afraid to go their own way and who do not need your financial support after 18 if you do it my way. Of course Private schools want your money. They don't want you to know that it could be better spent elsewhere. Advice from a Jack of All Trades, Master of Whatever I Want to Master. Master of Puppets and all that jazz. Think outside the box. OP.



Oh please!!!
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 22:28     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course! Spending $$$ on their education is much more worthwhile than them inheriting your house when they are 50.


Are you insane?


Ha! Not at all. There is an old saying, "it takes one to call one". Here's looking at you babe.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 21:51     Subject: Re:I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Uneducated people do not understand how to properly educate children. Education begins and ends at home. School is only a supplement. Private is a waste of money. A well-educated individual has a free education, learning from everything in life. All of life is an education, if you understand how to teach. I could read and comprehend poetry at age two. My parents bought a set of encyclopedias for my gift at birth. I raised six well-educated individuals. My Mother created a program to reverse dyslexia in my youngest. He was reading, writing, and comprehending on a college level by middle school. I grew up in a hollow in the Appalachian Mountains. Low-income and wealthy.....surrounded by books and nature and freedom. I know everything. There's nothing I can't do, or figure out how to do. Don't waste money on private. Spend your money educating your kids properly. You'll raise individual freethinkers who aren't afraid to go their own way and who do not need your financial support after 18 if you do it my way. Of course Private schools want your money. They don't want you to know that it could be better spent elsewhere. Advice from a Jack of All Trades, Master of Whatever I Want to Master. Master of Puppets and all that jazz. Think outside the box. OP.


Not every mom around the beltway is like an Appalachian housewife homeschooling their kids. I am a breadwinner, I don't have time for that. So I buy education. And I doubt you were truly reading at age 2, but cool story bro. Yeah, every kid can do that if they were like Appalachian homeschoolers


I really don't understand how so many "well-educated" people on this forum cannot pick up on satire.


Because DCUM has very strange posters with bizarre claims about their greatness.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 21:48     Subject: I feel guilty not sending my kids to private
I would do it due to class size alone.