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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Altruism is always the wrong way to look at your child's education. Being friends with the neighbor kids who go to the local school is a good reason. Having a short walk to the school is a good reason. Saving money for extra-curriculars, enrichment, and private/college down the road is THE most important reason to start with a public school.

Just don't kid yourself that you're doing it for other reasons except your own family's interests.

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OP says they're thinking about it so they can have a way to have a community of local friends. [/quote]

She does. But there's a whole lot of virtue-signaling hand-wringing going on as well.

I live in [b]Bethesda, [/b]where half the families go to privates and half go to publics. There are many of us who can technically afford privates... but the publics are good and that allows us to invest the money we'd have spent on privates to grow our wealth for other things down the road. For example: my oldest son's 90K/yr university. Or downpayments for their future homes. Or more travel.

Even for people who can afford private K-12, private K-12 is often not the best choice.
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But that’s Bethesda, not DC. I’ve lived in both. Parents leave DC and move (usually now to VA for FCPS and the VA public college options) when the kids get of school age precisely to
get away for DC publics and towards better private options. [/quote]

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