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Anonymous
| ...your employer paid for most of private school tuition but you lived in a pretty good school district in Fairfax county, would you send your child to private or public school? My DC is still a preschooler, but I am already in two minds about this... |
Anonymous
| Who do you work for?? That's incredible. |
Anonymous
| If I found a private I liked, that actually offered me more than the public school, I would consider it. |
Anonymous
| The way things are with the growing class sizes and all sorts of programs possibly losing funding, I would get the free ride at a private. However, if things were the way they used to be at public I might be more likely to seriously consider public. Of course we have to go public because no company is paying for our kids to go private, but I digress.. |
Anonymous
| I went to FCPS and live here now and knew I would not be sending my kid to FCPS. If my employer paid for tuition that would just be an extra bonus for me. |
Anonymous
| My kid's in a private k-8 in VA. Being in a place where she is recognized as a person, & benefits from a rich curriculum is great. She will go to public HS in FFX though. I want her to be comfortable negotiating less personalized environments/institutions and interacting with a bigger range of people. I don't expect any difficulty with the latter, but the former will probably require some toughening up. Depends who your kid is, what they will most benefit from. |
Anonymous
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Private. I used to be rabidly pro-public schools, but the whole NCLB has really killed it, at least in Montgomery County. I have heard Virginia schools handle this better, but I don't have personal experience.
I especially like the idea of private for the younger grades. |
Anonymous
| OP here. Thanks for the thoughtful responses. One possibility that we are considering is private for elementary school and public for middle and high school... |
Anonymous
| Private. I have mine in private, and I would keep them there if it weren't for tuition. But make sure it is a good private school, bad ones are worse than public. |