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[quote=Anonymous]Depends a lot on what your public school system is like, and your kid.  Having almost completed two decades of private schooling, with a spouse who has on and off taught in public MS and HS, I would say that if your school system is at least pretty functional (which would include most-all elementary schools in Mont County, close in VA, and NW DC) and your child has no particular learning or behavioral issues,  and gets plenty of reading time and parental attention at home, then if had to choose I believe the biggest difference in richness of content and attention to the child BY FAR was in high school.  I went to a large and supposedly excellent public HS in a very upper middle class area, and what my kids have learned and been exposed to in their respective private upper schools has been incredible, in terms of teaching, feedback and individual attention to writing, ability to make their points orally, etc.  If you live in Fairfax or MC and can get into a public magnet like Blair or TJ, then particularly for a math/science directed kid, then probably no reason to go to private US, but compared to a standard even very good public high school, there was no comparison (frankly even to what my kids are now doing in highly-touted colleges in some classes! They learned more in some 11th and 12th grade humanities and science classes).  REally what a kid needs to get out of ES is a love of reading and learning, social skills, and numeracy, and hopefully for most kids can happen in a good public ES.[/quote]

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