Where can my kid get a great education without becoming an entitled a##hole?

[Anonymous]

We want our son to get a great education but don't want him to turn into Brett Kavanaugh.

He's only a year old, so I think we have time, (unless we were supposed to start with some elite playgroup when he was a zygote where Ruth Bader Ginsburg reads him Goodnight Moon or something).

We're focused on private schools in MD or DC because don't want to squeeze into Barbie's dream house in order to live in Potomac.

And yes, I know that parental influence is the main factor in my kid not becoming a total douchebag. But school plays a role, too.

Not surprisingly, Google is no help in this matter.

[Anonymous]

Please pardon the typos. See? That's why we need a good school.

[Anonymous]

Send him to public school.

[Anonymous]

Public school. Not in Bethesda or Potomac.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Send him to public school.

+1

[Anonymous]

Second the public school suggestion. Isn’t the point of private school so that your kid will be surrounded by privilege and will only interact with maybe one acceptable poor? My guess is anyone in that environment is gonna be a bit clueless about how life works for the other 99% and be a bit entitled as a result.

[Anonymous]

Our country doesn't care enough about education to make public schools nearly as good as private schools. We live in a country that cares more about money than education, so you have to throw money at a school one way or another: by living in an elite district or by shelling out for private school.

Does that make you mad? Me too. But it's true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our country doesn't care enough about education to make public schools nearly as good as private schools. We live in a country that cares more about money than education, so you have to throw money at a school one way or another: by living in an elite district or by shelling out for private school.

Does that make you mad? Me too. But it's true.

It's not true. There are plenty of excellent school districts with ordinary houses. You don't have to live in an elite district or pay for private.

[Anonymous]

Home school

[Anonymous]

Public school.

Private school tends to turn out entitled jerks, especially the boys. Source: woman who went to private schools for 12 years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our country doesn't care enough about education to make public schools nearly as good as private schools. We live in a country that cares more about money than education, so you have to throw money at a school one way or another: by living in an elite district or by shelling out for private school.

Does that make you mad? Me too. But it's true.

It's not true. There are plenty of excellent school districts with ordinary houses. You don't have to live in an elite district or pay for private.

I'd it if you could please share some. I'll keep an open mind to moving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Home school

I thought about this, but can you get your kid into a good college if you home school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our country doesn't care enough about education to make public schools nearly as good as private schools. We live in a country that cares more about money than education, so you have to throw money at a school one way or another: by living in an elite district or by shelling out for private school.

Does that make you mad? Me too. But it's true.

And yet both of my kids went through AAP at good old FCPS public’s and to TJ— where a large number of DMV private school kids would wash out the first semester. Go figure.

MoCo, Fairfax and Arlington all have excellent public options. Are these elite districts? IDK. Probably more like they have elite pyramids within above average districts. But they are what we have, so bemoaning the state of public education in rural SC doesn’t help OP.

And you don’t have to live in Potomac to get a great school. In FCPS, Langley and McLean are great, but so are the TJ feeders in the Western County, and the schools in the West Springfield/Burke area, and Oakton/Woodson. I’m sure MoCo has great school in more than one place too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our country doesn't care enough about education to make public schools nearly as good as private schools. We live in a country that cares more about money than education, so you have to throw money at a school one way or another: by living in an elite district or by shelling out for private school.

Does that make you mad? Me too. But it's true.

It's not true. There are plenty of excellent school districts with ordinary houses. You don't have to live in an elite district or pay for private.

I'd it if you could please share some. I'll keep an open mind to moving.

North Arlington, which is pricey
FCPS: schools zoned Langley and McLean, which are wealthy/elite. Or schools zoned for Oakton, Woodson, Chantilly, Lake Braddock, Robinson, Marshall, West Springfield. All of which are socioeconomically diverse and excellent. Avoid eastern county IB HSs.

I’m sure someone can do MoCo for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Second the public school suggestion. Isn’t the point of private school so that your kid will be surrounded by privilege and will only interact with maybe one acceptable poor? My guess is anyone in that environment is gonna be a bit clueless about how life works for the other 99% and be a bit entitled as a result.

Maybe that’s true if you grew up rich. Not everyone in private school is rich. I wasn’t and neither is my son.