Something you may not know about Virginia and private schools - teachers do not have to be certified by the state to teach at a private school, nor do the private schools do SOL's. In fact, there are some schools that use "supervisory" teachers who are in charge of 4-6 other adults that direct the classroom education. The people actually delivering instruction are not required to have a college degree. One private school in my area proudly uses the ABeka curriculum. The kids sit in cubicles all day and do worksheet after worksheet for 6-7 hours a day, with a 'para-educator' passing out the sheets and walking up and down the aisles. That is one of the schools where the public school drop outs end up. Sounds great huh?
I did not know that information - but from what I’ve heard of the private HS it does not surprise me. It’s pretty bad, to me anyway, when middle school honor students turn down full scholarships to the private school because of the drug and discipline problems they know to exist there.
I know one that did, and I know her parents. Her father is one of our trivia playing buddies and her mother was my daughter’s K-2 teacher.
OTOH, the elemtary school there does have some good programs and we lost a good 2nd grade teacher to the private school because it has a better program for her son who is not only autistic, but has severe diabetes.
But then, on the 3rd hand (lol) the discipline child in my daughter’s 3rd grade class who was expelled back in the fall is now attending either a private school or is being homeschooled - I don’t know which. I just know the child was expelled.
That’s some serious stuff that a 3rd grader is expelled from a public school. But it is a reason I like this district.