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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]is private school really better than top public plus 1:1 tutoring?
Im pretty sure the latter gives better outcomes, unless your looking for your kids to start networking in school for life...[/quote]

Private schools give 15-16 kids in a classroom vs 30-40 in public.  Overall a very different learning environment.  And wouldn't it be nice if your kid didn't have to spend 6-7 hours in school and another hour or two in tutoring daily?

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Where are public classes 40 kids?  Arlington's max ES class size is around 24.  We're at one of the option schools so the classes are always at that max.  I don't know that the environment would be hugely different if were were 9 fewer kids (class of 15) like the private's apparently have, certainly not worth the $$$.  Some are more than college will cost! :shock: [/quote]

My kids were in a Top public in our area (not DCUM).  Their HS was built for 1800, but had 2600 students.  majority of their classes were 30+ students, some were closer to 40 (think AP Calc BC, we have 37 students and that's not enough to justify 2 sections so we will just cram them all into a single class) 
Our ES are using 28-30 kids.

However, locally to you, it's happening in Howard county and has been for 15+ years.  My now in college kid had 30 in their 1st grade class, because there were not enough kids to justify another section until end of October.  Then, after getting the extra 5 kids registered, they added a teacher and broke up 1st graders 2 months into the year and put some into the new class.   But HoCo has been increasing class sizes for years, every year with budget cuts.  So it does happen and its not the best for most kids.  Sure my kids did okay, but I'm 100% certain they would have done better with only 20 kids in their classes.  
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See, this is when the national reach of this website becomes unhelpful. It just isn’t the norm in the DMV school systems where there are 35 or 40 students at a class.

If I were making $1 million a year but living outside of the DMV in a lower cost of living area with public schools with 35 or 40 kids in the class, sure, I’d think about private schools. But that is not the DMV equation.[/quote]

Who said that PP‘s area was cheaper? You all don’t realize how affordable the DMV is compared to more desirable areas in the country.[/quote]

Please elaborate on all of these more desirable areas that are significantly more expensive than the DMV. I can think of about two metro areas that are meaningfully more expensive and I would not want to live in either of them.[/quote]

NY, LA, Boston, San Fran, heck even Tampa is more expensive for the desirable areas. [/quote]

Lol at anyone considering Tampa more expensive or desirable.[/quote]

NP here - Tampa is more expensive overall but definitely not more desirable.  It has some s* parts, but so does DC area, please visit Woodbridge, silver spring, border of MD with dc etc. [/quote]

I would not say no to this. Tampa has lots of perks.

https://www.redfin.com/FL/Tampa/96-Martinique-Ave-33606/home/47327090

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Thanks for pointing us to the most expensive house in Tampa, but your premise is provably false. According to Redfin, for December the median home price in Tampa was $417k, almost exactly the same as the median in Prince George's County, which was $415k. By contrast: Silver Spring $545k. DC $600k. Fairfax $638k. Arlington $770k. Bethesda $1.1m. Potomac $1.3m. Vienna $1.3m. McLean $1.3m.

And just for comparison's sake, the median in NYC was $800k (Manhattan $1.3m), San Francisco was $1.2m, Boston $830k.[/quote]

If you compare Bethesda, which is probably the best suburb in the DC area with the whole of Tampa, you clearly don’t know what you’re doing. You need to compare it to the top suburb in Tampa, whatever it is called. Also you must factor in the exorbitant price of insurance and real estate taxes in Tampa. That’s all part of the cost of home ownership. I don’t know what this discussion is all about but you’re comparing apples with oranges.[/quote]

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