Anonymous wrote:I just wanted my kids to hang out with other Rich and connected families to increase their chances to get into an Ivy League school.

At least somebody’s honest around here

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Anonymous wrote:I think the county-run publics in the DC region can be solid but aren’t going to deliver top-tier education in the way that smaller public districts further north like Brookline, MA, Short Hills, NJ, or Scarsdale, NY can.

I wouldn’t say those are top tier. If you live in those towns, go to Roxbury Latin, Lawrenceville, and Horace Mann, respectively.

Lawrenceville is like an hour and 30 minutes away from Short Hills. PP has no idea what they're talking about. Millburn High School (which services Short Hills) is a great public school, but not even the best in NJ. Most of the people I knew in Short Hills that went private went to Pingry, Kent Place and Newark Academy for independent schools, or if they were Catholic they went to Delbarton or Oak Knoll.

Delbarton and Pingry arent good and anything with Newark in it is a sign to run for the hills. Nonetheless, all are better options than any NJ public school.

Lawrenceville is the best HS in NJ. It’s convenient to board there from Short Hills.

When my husband and I were considering the switch from (a highly rated) APS to private, I seriously agonized over the decision. It was going to be so much money for us and I knew that once we made the move, it would be hard to pull our kids out and go back to public.

Today, I'm grateful we made the switch. Most everything is better in regards to the time and attention our children get with their teachers, the high school is so much smaller (500 vs APS 2600) and you don't feel like such a little fish, the privates have more college counselors vs. the ONE in public that barely has time to talk with you (btw, I heard they almost cut that position too), general school policies are more consistently carried through (such as the phone policy, etc), on snow days we switch to virtual school, the friend groups can be nicer for both kids and parents which is a benefit when they start to date.

Anonymous wrote:In our Potomac neighborhood of about 600 homes which is zoned for Whitman, at least 50% of the high school kids go to private schools.

This thread is about “excellent” public school alternatives. Whitman hasn’t met that standard since about 2005

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Anonymous wrote:If you need a broad answer, you should asked also in public forum and hear what they say, there is plenty families who is very wealthy and highly educated and keep their kids in public school, especially in highly regarded area.
If you are only asked here your heart are already set to private, you only seek certain approval you need…, which is fine.

Very wealthy and highly educated families are keeping their kids in public school? Thanks for the laugh. Maybe if they dislike their kids.

Sure you can laugh in your little bubble, all publics family is dirt poor, including the ones in like Langley pyramid.
In fact alot of privates is not actually that wealthy…

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Anonymous wrote:I think the county-run publics in the DC region can be solid but aren’t going to deliver top-tier education in the way that smaller public districts further north like Brookline, MA, Short Hills, NJ, or Scarsdale, NY can.

I wouldn’t say those are top tier. If you live in those towns, go to Roxbury Latin, Lawrenceville, and Horace Mann, respectively.

Lawrenceville is like an hour and 30 minutes away from Short Hills. PP has no idea what they're talking about. Millburn High School (which services Short Hills) is a great public school, but not even the best in NJ. Most of the people I knew in Short Hills that went private went to Pingry, Kent Place and Newark Academy for independent schools, or if they were Catholic they went to Delbarton or Oak Knoll.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the county-run publics in the DC region can be solid but aren’t going to deliver top-tier education in the way that smaller public districts further north like Brookline, MA, Short Hills, NJ, or Scarsdale, NY can.

I wouldn’t say those are top tier. If you live in those towns, go to Roxbury Latin, Lawrenceville, and Horace Mann, respectively.

They offer the combination of an Ivy pipeline with a connection to the community. Only 7% of K-12 students in Scarsdale attend a private school and it is among the wealthiest communities in the country. That’s compared to 28% in Besthesda.

In our Potomac neighborhood of about 600 homes which is zoned for Whitman, at least 50% of the high school kids go to private schools.

Anonymous wrote:I think the county-run publics in the DC region can be solid but aren’t going to deliver top-tier education in the way that smaller public districts further north like Brookline, MA, Short Hills, NJ, or Scarsdale, NY can.

I wouldn’t say those are top tier. If you live in those towns, go to Roxbury Latin, Lawrenceville, and Horace Mann, respectively.

I think the county-run publics in the DC region can be solid but aren’t going to deliver top-tier education in the way that smaller public districts further north like Brookline, MA, Short Hills, NJ, or Scarsdale, NY can.

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Anonymous wrote:You get what you pay for.

Not true. It takes more than just money. Some pull their kid out of good public high school for a private one. Then the kid ends up going to a mediocre college anyways. Look at the local private HS College Commitments Websites.

Families with money don’t always obsess about college placement and rankings. Our kids have already won in life. You do get what you pay for.

Yeah, tell yourself that. But whose kid would an engineering co would hire? A kid with middling grade from Clemson or top student from UMD? Of course, families with money don’t obsess about where their kids go to college, because there’s always mommy’s basement. Good luck caring for special child for life.

Nice try, dummy!

You appear to think Clemson is a private school. It’s not. It’s a South Carolina public school.

I’m confused about this whole subthread. Is Clemson supposed to be the elite school here or UMD?

That’s the neat part. Nobody knows haha.

No! Only one poster doesn't appear to know. It's the public school booster / apologist who isn't able to grasp why people send their kids to private school is they are zoned for Whitman, Churchill, etc.

There is more than one poster here that pointed out that your attempt to use data to prove your point was embarrassingly wrong. And that includes those of us with kids in private, because we aren’t insecure about it.

Anonymous wrote:I live in a wealthy neighborhood with highly ranked public options. Some of my neighbors are wealthy enough that the cost of private school is an afterthought. For some of them, it is generational. They went to private and cannot imagine not doing the same for their kids (I also think they would feel like this would reflect badly upon themselves in their peer groups since many still socialize with their classmates from their privates). One family is very religious. Another very honestly shared that his daughter wouldn’t have stood out at the local high school because of the competition. She ended up going to an Ivy and they felt the private really helped her with that.

Same for my daughter. She is very bright but also soft-spoken and doesn’t naturally stand out in a crowd. I strongly suspect in public she would have been seated next to the meltdown kids and largely ignored since she is above average but not top 10%. In private she gets attention too.

I am not aiming for Ivy but I have no doubt private is giving her a better education and higher quality of life than public.

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Anonymous wrote:You get what you pay for.

Not true. It takes more than just money. Some pull their kid out of good public high school for a private one. Then the kid ends up going to a mediocre college anyways. Look at the local private HS College Commitments Websites.

Families with money don’t always obsess about college placement and rankings. Our kids have already won in life. You do get what you pay for.

Yeah, tell yourself that. But whose kid would an engineering co would hire? A kid with middling grade from Clemson or top student from UMD? Of course, families with money don’t obsess about where their kids go to college, because there’s always mommy’s basement. Good luck caring for special child for life.

Nice try, dummy!

You appear to think Clemson is a private school. It’s not. It’s a South Carolina public school.

I’m confused about this whole subthread. Is Clemson supposed to be the elite school here or UMD?

That’s the neat part. Nobody knows haha.

No! Only one poster doesn't appear to know. It's the public school booster / apologist who isn't able to grasp why people send their kids to private school is they are zoned for Whitman, Churchill, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:You get what you pay for.

Not true. It takes more than just money. Some pull their kid out of good public high school for a private one. Then the kid ends up going to a mediocre college anyways. Look at the local private HS College Commitments Websites.

Families with money don’t always obsess about college placement and rankings. Our kids have already won in life. You do get what you pay for.

Yeah, tell yourself that. But whose kid would an engineering co would hire? A kid with middling grade from Clemson or top student from UMD? Of course, families with money don’t obsess about where their kids go to college, because there’s always mommy’s basement. Good luck caring for special child for life.

Nice try, dummy!

You appear to think Clemson is a private school. It’s not. It’s a South Carolina public school.

I’m confused about this whole subthread. Is Clemson supposed to be the elite school here or UMD?

That’s the neat part. Nobody knows haha.

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Anonymous wrote:You get what you pay for.

Not true. It takes more than just money. Some pull their kid out of good public high school for a private one. Then the kid ends up going to a mediocre college anyways. Look at the local private HS College Commitments Websites.

Families with money don’t always obsess about college placement and rankings. Our kids have already won in life. You do get what you pay for.

Yeah, tell yourself that. But whose kid would an engineering co would hire? A kid with middling grade from Clemson or top student from UMD? Of course, families with money don’t obsess about where their kids go to college, because there’s always mommy’s basement. Good luck caring for special child for life.

Nice try, dummy!

You appear to think Clemson is a private school. It’s not. It’s a South Carolina public school.

I’m confused about this whole subthread. Is Clemson supposed to be the elite school here or UMD?