DC privates educating suburban kids

[Anonymous]

Suburban kids have a right to a world-class education as much as anyone. That's what helps keep the applicant pool strong enough for the schools to be desirable in the first place!

[Anonymous]

Not saying anything should be mandated, but have noticed that ,at least at DD's school, most families live in MOCO, or VA and not DC so I do understand her gut reaction.Give her a break. Kids get stabbed during the school day at DCPS. Has anyone ever watched the behavior and listened to the language of the "students" at Tennleytown metro at 3pm on a school day??Last year a Wilson student participated in the car jacking and robbery of a teacher who recognized him during the crime and he recognized her. He then got out of the car before his uncle was about to attempt a rape.Not exactly A.J. smoking pot is it? My point is: people who live in DC may be choosing privates not just because they want "the best" but because they are trying to protect their child and that tends to make people feel a little on edge.Give her a break. And if you live in Foxhall and make over a million a year,please don't post,"and I live in DC" because you should know better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Suburban kids have a right to a world-class education as much as anyone. That's what helps keep the applicant pool strong enough for the schools to be desirable in the first place!

Actually, if you need FA chances are the only reason the school is taking your DC is for academic reasons so that would contradict above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Suburban kids have a right to a world-class education as much as anyone. That's what helps keep the applicant pool strong enough for the schools to be desirable in the first place!

Actually, if you need FA chances are the only reason the school is taking your DC is for academic reasons so that would contradict above.

I'm not following. Do more people who get in from DC need financial aid?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Not saying anything should be mandated, but have noticed that ,at least at DD's school, most families live in MOCO, or VA and not DC so I do understand her gut reaction.Give her a break. Kids get stabbed during the school day at DCPS. Has anyone ever watched the behavior and listened to the language of the "students" at Tennleytown metro at 3pm on a school day??Last year a Wilson student participated in the car jacking and robbery of a teacher who recognized him during the crime and he recognized her. He then got out of the car before his uncle was about to attempt a rape.Not exactly A.J. smoking pot is it? My point is: people who live in DC may be choosing privates not just because they want "the best" but because they are trying to protect their child and that tends to make people feel a little on edge.Give her a break. And if you live in Foxhall and make over a million a year,please don't post,"and I live in DC" because you should know better.[/quote]

Sorry . . . if the schools are that horrible, OP should move like the rest of us had to. You know, there are lots of us who would prefer to live in the District for our own satisfaction but live in the suburbs because it suits our children's lives better. OP has decided to put her desire to love in DC over her ability to have good public schools in the event her child doesn't get into or she can't afford, private schools and she has to love with the consequences of that. I chose to live in the suburbs so that I have a great public school option and I live with the consequences of that.

[Anonymous]

After some reflection, I've come to the conclusion this is the dumbest thread on the DCUM independent schools site. (Sorry Sidwell football thread! Be happy with the nomination, Beauvoir Cotillion thread!) Given that the tax-free status of non-profits is a larger policy issue that has about zero chance of changing, the thread is just a repository for silly urban vs. suburban sniping. Yes, yes, don't read the thread if I think it is dumb . . . cue the orchestra and let's move on . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IF you send your kids to school in DC there is no reason not to live in the District. None.

Here is the reason: people like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IF you send your kids to school in DC there is no reason not to live in the District. None.

Here is the reason: people like you.

I live in DC, and I agree.

[Anonymous]

Yes they should limit the number of out of district students who attend these private schools. Maybe 10 percent from from md or va. and charge them more as out of district students. Why should dc tax payers subsidize these schools if the majority of benefits go to people who do not live in dc(non profits don't pay taxes) and their schools are so bad. If you want to go to these schools move to the district

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes they should limit the number of out of district students who attend these private schools. Maybe 10 percent from from md or va. and charge them more as out of district students. Why should dc tax payers subsidize these schools if the majority of benefits go to people who do not live in dc(non profits don't pay taxes) and their schools are so bad. If you want to go to these schools move to the district

Why should VA and MD taxpayers subsidize the ability for DC residents to use roads, airports or train tracks? Perhaps DC residents need to find another way to travel... better save up for some helicopters.

This thread is just silly.

[Anonymous]

PP, they have plenty of helicopters in DC -- oh, those are the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Suburban kids have a right to a world-class education as much as anyone. That's what helps keep the applicant pool strong enough for the schools to be desirable in the first place!

Actually, if you need FA chances are the only reason the school is taking your DC is for academic reasons so that would contradict above.

I'm not following. Do more people who get in from DC need financial aid?

Well, perhaps my assumption is incorrect, but if you can't afford Private school, but live in a Suburb that has one of the best public school systems in the America, I assume that you would go with the option of a great public school education that is free.Unless of course, you teach at the Private and get a remittance that way. I would also assume that the availability of a great free public education may be one of the reasons that you live in Suburbs because we all know commute to work is a soul sucker takes away hours of family time a day.The only type of individual I can think of who would turn down a great free education in a safe beautiful neighborhood where their child can walk to school and make friends that are also his/her neighbors is someone who has ample ability to pay and wants a particular school for their DC because they are an alum or because they are convinced it will stack the deck for an admit to HPYS or something . These people can pay $$$$ and do. Parents who live in DC and can't pay full , while it is obvious that their DC needs to get accepted to Private with FA or out of bounds in the lottery or they have to move, what is the motivation for the school to not only take their DC, but do it at a reduced rate: there is only one : test scores and academic integrity of the school.

[Anonymous]

I couldn't possibly follow your entire rant, but Arlington and Bethesda are not the only DC suburbs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Suburban kids have a right to a world-class education as much as anyone. That's what helps keep the applicant pool strong enough for the schools to be desirable in the first place!

Actually, if you need FA chances are the only reason the school is taking your DC is for academic reasons so that would contradict above.

I'm not following. Do more people who get in from DC need financial aid?

Well, perhaps my assumption is incorrect, but if you can't afford Private school, but live in a Suburb that has one of the best public school systems in the America, I assume that you would go with the option of a great public school education that is free.Unless of course, you teach at the Private and get a remittance that way. I would also assume that the availability of a great free public education may be one of the reasons that you live in Suburbs because we all know commute to work is a soul sucker takes away hours of family time a day.The only type of individual I can think of who would turn down a great free education in a safe beautiful neighborhood where their child can walk to school and make friends that are also his/her neighbors is someone who has ample ability to pay and wants a particular school for their DC because they are an alum or because they are convinced it will stack the deck for an admit to HPYS or something . These people can pay $$$$ and do. Parents who live in DC and can't pay full , while it is obvious that their DC needs to get accepted to Private with FA or out of bounds in the lottery or they have to move, what is the motivation for the school to not only take their DC, but do it at a reduced rate: there is only one : test scores and academic integrity of the school.

[Anonymous]

This is not an issue of fairness, is it? Are You concerned at all with quality of public school in DC? Or simply upset because you could not secure a spot in a expensive private school which very few people can pay for? Blaming state lines looks silly.

[Anonymous]

This is ridiculous. DC people have the option of moving to a better school district in MD or VA just like so many of the other parents on this forum ended up having to do for their kids. I still have one child in a DC private because the child was already there when we moved and it didn't seem like the right decision to make the child switch schools. My kid earned the right to be in that school by getting great grades and SSAT scores, no connections whatsoever (and yes, FA). All of the DC people here who think it's unfair that MD kids go to DC privates are just big whiners and they need to deal with the situation realistically like so many MD and VA parents have already done. I grew up in DC but when I had middle school aged kids who needed a good education and private school for all of them was not an option, it was time to go. Lots of people move for the schools. Deal with it.