Budgeting for Private School -- Convince my spouse

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/1713-Birch-Rd-22101/home/9414177

OP will say that the public schools in McLean have "imploded" and that she can't possibly send her kids there to twiddle their thumbs.

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Rockville townhouse or SFH at $800k to $1M near the metro for your commute gives you MCPS schools like Richard Montgomery. Plenty of AP classes in every grade, magnets available, diverse student body, great town overall, and good school and nearby extracurriculars.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/1713-Birch-Rd-22101/home/9414177

OP will say that the public schools in McLean have "imploded" and that she can't possibly send her kids there to twiddle their thumbs.

I feel like OP came to the private school board because she wanted us to tell her her husband was wrong and she was right, and isn't taking it well that the consensus is he's right and she's wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd invest the money instead. Each kids would have 3-5 million by the time the are 30. Instead, their parents paid for private school and expect them to have great careers. What a pressure on the kids.

What are you talking about $200k invested for 15 years only gets to $750k

Even 25 years only gets to $1.7M at 8% return which is crazy optimistic.

People with elite educations on this board pull in $700k/year, vs public school strivers who land a GS15 at $176k.

Yeah it’s a lot of pressure, but the world is turning into a tale of two cities. Places like Montana are expensive now.

Are you OP? This is really disordered even if you are right about the investment numbers (that other PP was clearly wrong). But come on, of course high achievers come from public school. The language about strivers is literally crazy. And I am the PP whose kids went to a supposedly good public school and moved to private, so I’m generally in agreement with you on education quality.

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Anonymous wrote:Rockville townhouse or SFH at $800k to $1M near the metro for your commute gives you MCPS schools like Richard Montgomery. Plenty of AP classes in every grade, magnets available, diverse student body, great town overall, and good school and nearby extracurriculars.

This! RM is a great school. Plenty of neighborhoods with different size/cost homes.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/6856-Chelsea-Rd-22101/home/162765313

Interesting, it doesn't show up whn I search by Mclean High school. But this is a 3 bedroom, so maybe by the time oldest goes to college we can switch.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/1713-Birch-Rd-22101/home/9414177

This one is a busy road, and that is an uncorrectable defect that will hurt appreciaton. Ie another way to squander money like private school.

I"m a litte wary of the the other two houses for their 6000 sq ft lots. That is fine for us, but limits their resale I worry its a bad investment (like private school haha)

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Anonymous wrote:Rockville townhouse or SFH at $800k to $1M near the metro for your commute gives you MCPS schools like Richard Montgomery. Plenty of AP classes in every grade, magnets available, diverse student body, great town overall, and good school and nearby extracurriculars.

Metro for our commute would be non tenable. We don't work near a station, its a bus transfer from Captial South, and it would take over 1.5hrs each way for both of us.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/6856-Chelsea-Rd-22101/home/162765313

Interesting, it doesn't show up whn I search by Mclean High school. But this is a 3 bedroom, so maybe by the time oldest goes to college we can switch.

??? That’s a four bedroom house someone found for you, in your price range, in an excellent school cluster.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/6856-Chelsea-Rd-22101/home/162765313

Interesting, it doesn't show up whn I search by Mclean High school. But this is a 3 bedroom, so maybe by the time oldest goes to college we can switch.

It says it is zoned for Marshall not McLean

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/6856-Chelsea-Rd-22101/home/162765313

Interesting, it doesn't show up whn I search by Mclean High school. But this is a 3 bedroom, so maybe by the time oldest goes to college we can switch.

??? That’s a four bedroom house someone found for you, in your price range, in an excellent school cluster.

My listing says 4th bedroom is in basement

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/6856-Chelsea-Rd-22101/home/162765313

Interesting, it doesn't show up whn I search by Mclean High school. But this is a 3 bedroom, so maybe by the time oldest goes to college we can switch.

It says it is zoned for Marshall not McLean

Unless the address is wrong it’s definitely McLean though

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You can’t have it all, op. You can have anything you want, but not everything you want. If you need a large house in a great school district then it’s going to cost a lot of money. You don’t make excessive amounts of money so you are competing with people who can afford to pay more for housing. What do you want to compromise on? You wanted three kids, you had to have known that choice would come with a downside. Here it is.

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No idea why anyone is trying to help the OP she wants to hear one thing.

Private school for your kids is the right move. The schools suck and it is totally worth taking on debt when they go to College and working longer so that you can send your kids to private school. I mean, you want your kids to have the best. So keep on traveling and send the kids to private school. Don't worry about it. They will probably end up with all A's, taking a ton of AP classes starting in 9th grade, and get full scholarships to an Ivy because private schools are so much better then public schools.

No idea why this even a conversation. Go private all the way.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some houses for sale in the Longfellow MS draw area that are less that 1.6 for a 4 bedroom. I thought my DS's gifted education at Longfellow was excellent (especially in Math). It's not that far from Capital Hill especially if your DH and you are commuting together (can take 66 for free).

I looked at those houses, and every one is on a busy road or backs to a freeway or are a teardown.

Wow, for Mclean high school, even under $2M you have the same problem OR it's an obvious flip.

What?! There are plenty of houses in the McLean district under $2M that aren't flips, teardowns or on a freeway

Please post, I literally just looked

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/6856-Chelsea-Rd-22101/home/162765313

Interesting, it doesn't show up whn I search by Mclean High school. But this is a 3 bedroom, so maybe by the time oldest goes to college we can switch.

It says it is zoned for Marshall not McLean

No, it just has Marshall in the summary of area schools. Listing details, per the listing agent, say Langley HS.