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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you thinking public school for your kids? Is it mostly financial? [/quote]

The money is certainly important. I decided a long time ago that I never wanted to work for biglaw like one of my parents. The government pays less, but I make a very comfortable salary, and have amazing work/life balance.

In terms of non-financial factors, my husband has many public school teachers in his family (though not in the DC system) and public schools were important to him. Additionally, many of the kids I went to school with had a fairly elitist perspective. Honestly, I don't want my kids to be called poor because they don't fly private (literally happened to me), or think people who work to get through school are in a way below them. Obviously this was NOT true of all the kids at my school, but I would guess, at least in my grade, the "loudest" 25% were like that. I legitimately thought my family was very middle class until I went to college, when all of a sudden I was considered rich. Obviously this doesn't matter to a lot of parents, or to many it's outweighed by the benefits, but I think that at this point, many DC public schools/charter schools are so good that (for me) private school isn't necessary. [/quote]

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