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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - I understand many people in the DC Metro area have this issue - that's why I'd like to hear their perspective!

This is also absolutely not a social thing for us. It would be the opposite. Our social network is going public. We are also not terribly affluent. Private tuition, while not a crazy stretch, would be a sacrifice in terms of opportunity cost for other things.

The size of classes and attention paid to individual kids doesn't seem to be a factor at all I'm hearing. 24-26 kids in a class just seems pretty extreme to me for such little kids...[/quote]

We're in the same boat.  To me, the size of classes and attention paid to individual kids is a huge factor.  Probably the biggest.  I went to private growing up and had kids I was friends with in my neighborhood (who went either to my school or different ones), friends from my church (same), and friends that I rode horses with (same).  My parents had friends of their own plus the parents of the kids I knew from all of these avenues.  I never felt like I didn't have friends in my neighborhood, nor did I feel like it was a big deal to drive to get to my other friends' houses (I suppose my parents might have felt differently, but they never complained).  The biggest thing for me was that I LOVED my private school, I still keep in touch with my friends from there, my parents are still friends with my friends' parents, I had so many opportunities to do amazing things like take class trips starting in 6th grade, and I always felt like I had a big community of teachers who cared about me.  My husband, conversely, had a totally different experience in public school (and that was at a very good MD pyramid).  Maybe that's attributable to our different personalities, but I still think there are things about my private school that were unique and amazing and exactly what I want to give my kids.  Private tuition is a sacrifice (like you, not extraordinary, but still there), but to me it's totally worth it if my kids have even 1/10 the experience I had.  [/quote]

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