Any parents out there who are CHOOSING not to send their kids to private schools? Why ...??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want to have to mingle with private school parents who most likely will not have a thing in common with my family. I don't want to go through the antics of impressing a school that I am already paying big bucks to on why my 3 year old belongs there. My family can think of a lot of other things I can do with 25K a year. I know a lot of successful people that went to lowly public schools. But the clincher was....I asked my daughter if she would like to go to private school, and she said "No".

That would be your 3 year old daughter?

Why did you write "lowly public schools"?

It's called SARCASM.

[Anonymous]

" Just to respond to the PPs who scoffed at the prospect of kids/parents experiencing diversity in Chevy Chase - don't be so sure. For example, according to the Montgomery County schools website, BCC is approximately 2/3 white, with significant representation by African-American, Hispanic and Asian kids. Whitman is a little less diverse, but hardly all white. We live in the BCC school district and our neighborhood in the gentrifying part of CC is very diverse by any standard - race, culture, orientation, etc. Chevy Chase has a deservedly snooty rep but there are lots of houses that have not yet been turned into McMansions with families like us who moved here explicitly for the schools."

I find it very difficult to believe that any part of Chevy Chase is socioeconomically diverse, PP. You mention race, culture, and sexual orientation, but the fact is that test scores are primarily correlated with SES (though some racial differences remain after SES is accounted for). I hope you don't take offense, but there are probably few low-income students attending public elementary schools in Chevy Chase.

[Anonymous]

After seeing DCPS kids every morning, we've decided to move to N. VA in next 3,4 yrs.
My DH always refused the idea of moving out of DC. But he decided that he doesn't want our DD to be in that DCPS.
We are not thinking about competing to put our DD in a private school at all. Moving to N. VA is much easier than stressing about getting in to a private school in DC.