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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I switch to private at college and graduate school.  I don't see the need to pay for it prior as no one cares where you went to preschool or elementary school when you are 40.  Rather kids be debt free.[/quote]

The kids themselves might care.   You and many other people asset that the two educational experiences are equal and interchangeable -- but you're wrong.

[b]The private education my elementary-aged child is getting Is, on balance, superior to what MoCo and dcps is offering (I would never live in Virginia so their offerings are irrelevant).[/b]   [/quote]

I'd have to disagree with this.  We looked at private (and would have gone had we not got into the charter school we wanted), however, my daughter is learning two languages at her charter school.  Her class size is the same at the Big 3 schools we looked at (and smaller then several other DC privates).  I would say, MoCo publics and many DCPS schools, probably are not the same education levels but many of the charter school elementry programs (YuYing, MV, CM) are on par with private school education.[/quote]

We actually looked at YY and my neighbor-friend's kid goes there so I'm very familiar with their day to day experience (staff, staff experience, schedule, curriculum especially, facility) Once you take away the mandarin instruction,  it's not so special.   For some people, mandarin IS super special and that is great.

CM, IT and the like really can't compare with Maret, Beauvoir, St Albans and their ilk.  Possibly in ratios, but that's easy to quantify so that's what charter parents love to hold up as evidence  Then they announce they're the same, we're done here, matter settled. [/quote]

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