Sound off - Ivy grads & high income earners who chose public schools over privates
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Anonymous
And, yes, some of us hit all your search terms. |
Anonymous
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One Ivy, both grad degrees, HHI above 800k and GE way above 3, public (in Alexandria City no less). Disappointed by lousy private experiences, happy about public academics, and like the other public families a lot. No regrets whatsoever about yanking from private.
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Anonymous
| Legacy Ivy person here. No, my family has strong, hard-working beliefs. No one attended private school for K-12. Waste of money in my opinion |
Anonymous
| Ivy graduates here. HHI is right at 350k, give or take a few thousand. We are at a JKLM and really liking it, but are definitely keeping the options open for middle and high school. I am not one who's an avid public school defender or looks down on private, but for our family right now, public is a good option. That could change in the future, though. |
Anonymous
So people at privates don't have "strong, hard-working beliefs"? Ok. |
Anonymous
| Ivy and Georgetown grads. Kids in public school, here in Bethesda. That's one of the reasons we moved here. The Whitman school district can't be beat! |
Anonymous
| Cornell undergrad, Harvard Law (DH is Duke undergrad and Harvard Law) in the HHI that OP posted and we send our DC to public school (Nottingham-Williamsburg-Yorktown). But our DC goes to a county-wide choice school in S. Arlington. We both went to public schools and turned out just fine, so why would we spend the money on private? |
Anonymous
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Ivy League grad with a ph.d. married to a JD (top 10 law school), HHI $220K (I work part-time; when I go back full time it will be closer to $300). We are are in Silver Spring and send the kids to public. They are in magnet/HGC programs. No plans to move them (or us to a different area).
A friend of mine is married to a Big Law partner & they live in Chevy Chase and send their kids to public. Other friends are Ivy League grads (graduate school) and send their kids to Takoma Park cluster. I'm sure I could think of a number of others if I tried. |
Anonymous
| Me, ivy undergrad and ivy law. Husband went to very prestigious SLAC. Household income under $200K. Both of us went to public schools K-12. Our kids are in MCPS, Whitman cluster. |
Anonymous
| I feel like we are all in are something that the private schoolers just don't get. |
Anonymous
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OP again. Many thanks for the feedback. So does anyone with kids in public school disagree with the following two statements:
1. A substantial number of public school students in the DC/MD/VA area have parents who attended top colleges and grad schools, including not only Ivy League universities but also several other similarly prestigious institutions. 2. A substantial number of public school students in the DC/MD/VA area come from families earning $250,000 or more. |
Anonymous
Wait, I don't get it. I thought you were asking: of parents who went to Ivies/earn a lot of money, how many send their children to public schools? But actually you're asking: of public school students in DC/MD/VA, how many have parents who went to Ivies/earn a lot of money? If the latter, I would say -- not a whole lot. The number of people who didn't go to Ivies is enormously bigger than the number of people who did, and $350,000+ is a lot of money, even in the more affluent parts of the DC metropolitan area. |
Anonymous
I am one of those parents and totally disagree. There are absolutely decent sized pockets of people who meet 1 and 2 in the highly regarded schools in high SES areas. But from my MCPS perspective could I say that a school with a FARMS rate over 40-50% (of which there are several) has substantial numbers in either category? Of course not. Could I say that for the school population in DCPS high schools - even less chance that it applies to even a small percentage of the total high school population. What exactly are you trying to prove and why? People make their own decisions about schooling choices. We have one in private and one in public. My income means those decisions are not based on tuition but on fit for each kid. |
Anonymous
+1. OP either is in high school, or went to a non-Ivy, or drank too much during his/ her Ivy years to assimilate logic and critical thinking. |
Anonymous
You're right ... maybe I've confused the question. I get that the number of Ivy/$350k (shorthand obviously) families is pretty small to begin with - no matter where their children attend school - so I don't expect it to be a big % regardless. What I'm really trying to get at is whether the Ivy/$350k families almost exclusively choose private schools, such that very few of them choose public schools ... or whether instead lots of them choose public schools too, such that there are more than just a few in public schools (in raw #s, not percentages). Maybe another way to ask the question is this: Of all your neighbors and co-workers in DC who are Ivy/$350k families, what's the rough % who send their children to private school vs. public school? For me, I'd say it's about 90% public and only 10% private, but I'm not sure if I'm representative. |