Reply to Help me with a Whitman snob!

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Help me with a Whitman snob!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...

And finally, if you weren't so unhappy with your kitchen/house right now, I'd say consider private school.  It is often financially more prudent to live in a lower-cost neighborhood and go to private school than it is to move into a top-performing school cluster with the associated costs.   Don't forget that lovely thing called peer pressure.  A Whitman or Wootton or BCC crowd is going to bring peer expectations that a DCC crowd may not have.   Expensive clothes, trips, travel teams, hobbies, etc.  Those have to be factored in, too.  High school is expensive.  SAT prep alone is insane.  [/quote]

I disagree that it's financially more prudent to live in a small house and send your kids to private school. You might choose this route because your kid needs small classes or for another reason, but financially you would be better off building up equity in a more expensive house and sending your kids to a good public school.

I'm also surprised PP disregards peer pressure, expensive clothes, and SAT prep for private school kids. All these things are equal, if not more of a problem, in private schools. Unless she was comparing Whitman to the DCC and/or making a point about reserving money in your budget for SAT prep, in which case I would agree, but it's unclear.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics