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Comment on Ask HN: How do you make educational choices for your kids?parent

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What are the ideals and concepts important to you?

I think this would be highly variable from parent to parent. I think it's also not easily defined in a concise fashion - you'll have people give you an answer of "civil rights" or "freedom" and they can mean almost opposites for different people when you did into the details. I'm not sure that will be useful to you or anyone else.

That said... I want a school with a reasonably good rating (indicating that other kids/parents care), that is safe (again, tied to general parental oversight of their kids), not overbearing by having well thoughtout policies (for example, blacklist foods in the classroom where people are seriously allergic to it as opposed to having a whitelist of approved snacks that exclude entire groups of food), is more about education than indoctrination, and has an overall environment that will facilitate learning (very open ended and subjective).

Thank you! What ratings would you trust?

Standardized test scores, metrics on college and tech school admissions/outcomes, public opinion, and some of those Zillow-type ratings all factor in. You can even request a tour of the school, course offerings, etc.

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