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Twingles- thank you for making me ever more confident that I did the best thing by homeschooling my son in HS. Even though he was at one of the "best" schools it was a disaster for him. The others, fortunately, got through the system before things got bad.
Private schools buy you two things WCPSS can’t and may never provide. Stability and freedom from an ever changing curriculum with little to no support for the both teachers and students. They implemented a disastrous math curriculum in the high schools a few years ago and it is trickling down to lower grades. ELA curriculum was also changed and is changing and it’s also terrible. I could go on and on but suffice to say as a once HUGE proponent of public school I can confidently say if I miraculously had another child there is zero chance they would be a student in WCPSS.
And people can make fun of choosing “the best” wcpss schools but the pandemic has laid bare the stark difference in how schools are run at the individual level. You get what you pay for so to speak. This is true when comparing both public to private and public to public.
I'll drop myself in this exact category as well. We put two kids through WCPSS from grades K-12 in southwest Wake. Overall, I would grade it as "acceptable". They run A LOT of experiments on kids both in terms of class instruction and school assignment. Our kids went to three different elementary schools -- and we lived in the same house the whole time. We were lucky in that our kids adapted well, but we know plenty of kids that struggled mightily with the disruptions. I'd expect that pattern to shift more to HS/FV as 540 fuels more expansion and neighborhood developments out that way. But we also didn't spend $30K minimum per year on private school, so there's that haha.
The private school options are fairly limited in both towns. There's Hilltop Christian in FV with grades K-12, and a Montessori School in HS which only goes to grade 5.
You are forgetting Thales Academy in Holly Springs. I know many parents (and some of the teachers there) and they love it. It is quite reasonably priced too for a private school.
OP, I hope you have your grain of salt ready. Some of the most outspoken critics of the Wake County Public Schools continue to send their children all the way through the system. Some currently have their children in attendance. Yep, right through graduation. Some then go on to the fine NC public universities as well. The Wake County Public Schools must be doing something right, no?
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