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[quote=Anonymous]It depends a) who you are and b) which public school you are comparing to which private school. I think, for a middle class, educationally savvy family a less than great elementary school is fine through maybe 3rd or 4th grade. It is disastrous for an at risk child to be in such an elementary school. By 4th or 5th-- when kids are no longer learning to read, but instead need to read to learn -- everybody needs a very good school or permanent deficits will appear or else a less than stimulating learning environment or peer group will turn off even advanced learners. So by middle school if you are not in a good public school, it is time to make the switch. That being said--by DC is at Washington Latin for free and besides some added bells and whistles, I cannot fathom the private schools would offer a better academic grounding through high school. Without WL or Deal we would be gone to private ( unlikely ) or suburbs. So my opinion: it all depends [/quote]
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