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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Most parochial schools have classes of 20-20+, and the education is more rigid so not something I would want to pay $20k on.  There are only a few schools at that $40-50+k that I think are worthwhile, mostly at the HS level.[/quote]

What do you mean by rigid?  We are at a parochial that may be considered "rigid" but the kids are well behaved, know their grammar, and can write well.  I don't think you get much of that at public school.[/quote]

If what you wanted to say was that your individual family did not have access to those experiences with behavior and grammar in the public for which you were districted, fair enough. But my elementary-age kids are checking all of those boxes at our MCPS public, and then some. I myself am the product of parochial schools and had a hard time conceptualizing whether a community of circumstance rather than what I used to think of as a community of "intention" could self-regulate like this.

Boy, was I ever wrong. The families at our school support each other, support our principal, and support our kids. We aren't gathered together under a religious umbrella or filtered in because we could write a check for a certain dollar amount (although it is often fair to say that the neighborhood of an elementary is going to share at least some socioeconomic commonalities). But I value so very much the experience my children are having here. We are very lucky.
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