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| Mon, 10-09-2006 - 11:45am |
Does you send your child to private school.
What do you like about it?
What do you hate about it?
What do you like about it?
What do you hate about it?

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>>We are lucky to be in a smaller upscale community and our public school system is within the top 10 of our state!
Whoa Marylandcrab, deep breaths for you!
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See that was exactly my point to Maryland crab!
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"That's how our school district is. People are always wavering their kids into our school district. It can be a drag."
When kids get "waived" in, who pays the tuition? I am curious because school funding varies widely, and I like to know how other areas deal with this issue.
I don't currently (well, technically I do since homeschooling is considered a private school here!) but my son attended private for the first few years.
I liked small class sizes, having a sense of more control over events (very involved parents), knowing ALL the parents in the school (literally), being involved in the school board and having good communication with all the teachers and principal, etc.
"The schools in my district are AWESOME for k-5 but once we reach the middle/high school they fall off."
That's too bad. I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE my daughter's middle school. Not only is it nurturing, but they have a fabulous track record at getting kids into the elite prep/boarding schools. I met with my daughter's team today, and they were all awesome. The school is near one of the prep schools, and so the faculty (who have to live on campus) send their children there. This pretty much ensures that the academic standards are kept high.
Our high school isn't too shabby either. It was featured in Boston Magazine under the heading, "Prep School Perks at Public School Price". After the private prep schools depleat us of the best and brightest (there are a lot of private prep schools in the area, and the one in town takes about forty local kids), our graduates still get into a pretty impressive list of colleges. The school has also received national and state recognition.
If I lived elsewhere I might seriously consider private schools (or even homeschooling), but I haven't had to make that choice.
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