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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're just justifying not being able to afford a top tier school district. Your comment about private schools is also ignorant. There is no 100% white school and plenty are diverse enough.

What you are really doing is convincing yourself going to a middling to lower ranking public school is perfectly good. And yep, it is perfectly good enough for you. You'll have plenty of black classmates for your kid, your kid will go to Bowie State, and you're happy with that.

Nothing anyone will say on here will convince you otherwise. So it's a pointless post.[/quote]

Not OP but damn calm down SAH Karen, nowhere in OPs post did he/she say that private schools are white only, nor nowhere is the OP trying to justify sending kids to bad schools. They have a set budget and want to make the best of it.

OP, we do not have kids yet (30 is too early for that lol not ready for our lives to come to a standstill) but have relatives in area who did go through this over past few years. We were also I a similar position as you and similar, albeit slightly higher, budget (we bought last year and we're paying attention to schools for when we do have kids)

The Elementary and Middle school quality matters a lot as well, it is the foundation of the child's education. Focus on making sure that they get into a good elementary and middle as you have no idea where you will be living or what you buying power will be 14 or so years down the line (ie going for a district with a good high school but middling ES and MS makes no sense).

In terms of Great Schools, true the ratings are very much correlated with the income levels of the district, and research has shown that a determinant of a child's success is the parents education and income level. That being said, because of that, you do want to be in a district where the parents are involved and your child is surrounded by kids whose parents give a damn.

As for us, we were mostly looking in Arlington and McLean. Decided Arlington since was closer to the city. Within Arlington we, after looking a lot, liked two places, one was a nicer place but districted for Barett ES (a bad school) while another was a more OK place but districted for Taylor ES (and decent ES). Ended up going with the place districted for Taylor. But as you choose, make sure to look at the district maps as well. [/quote]

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