If private school is a financial stretch for you, has it been worth it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We started two kids at Beauvoir in pre-K and they are still there. We have successful careers but not family money and are digging out of student loans. While we should have waited until middle school financially, I truly cant believe how wonderful the Beauvoir experience has been compared to what our friends are experiencing at non-NW publics. If our careers stay on track in a few years tue debt will be gone and we will be much more comfortable affording private but it will always be a stretch we are willing to make.

Thank you for sharing this. I feel like the logical thing is to wait for middle school, but I value early education and want to make it a priority…and of course secure their place in a K-12

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We started two kids at Beauvoir in pre-K and they are still there. We have successful careers but not family money and are digging out of student loans. While we should have waited until middle school financially, I truly cant believe how wonderful the Beauvoir experience has been compared to what our friends are experiencing at non-NW publics. If our careers stay on track in a few years tue debt will be gone and we will be much more comfortable affording private but it will always be a stretch we are willing to make.

Thank you for sharing this. I feel like the logical thing is to wait for middle school, but I value early education and want to make it a priority…and of course secure their place in a K-12

We're also holding until middle school, since that's the most we can financially swing, but I would look now for our oldest if we could. Our public ES has good leadership and teachers who are doing their absolute best given the limits, but I can see the chaos, resulting restrictions, and the testing wearing on them. I just want more creativity in elementary, darn it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have some neighborhood kids who attend a highly rated public school and would talk about fights and the drugs and used condoms in the bathroom- my kids were horrified by this.

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Apparently just this week, a student at Whitman (supposedly the best high school in MCPS) was sent to the hospital after he was beat up in the bathroom. This is the second fight like this at Whitman this year. At the end of January a student at BCC was sent to the hospital after the student was attacked at school.

I was appalled by this video of the Whitman fight. It made me very glad that my child is in a private school.

https://x.com/M4LMoCo/status/1886541630280183897