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[color=blue]Ware able to find out and know more about other services (e.g., vacation travel) and products (e.g., car, bike, or home theater) that we are buying than about what we are getting for the money in the schools.[/color]
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I think this is an excellent point, PP. We started out an an expensive private in preschool thinking that if people paid that much money for it, and it was hard to get into, it had to be good, and decided it was totally the Emporer's New Clothes.  Moved to a lesser known (and less expensive) school that is a better fit for us but doesn't provide some things that are important to us.  We are tempted to look at the better known schools again (including Landon) for high school, because on paper they have some of the missing things we are looking for.  But I am afraid we will find that they really aren't any different or better after all in the important respects.  You just can't evaluate teachers or teaching style from afar; you can't know if you or your kids will like your kids' peers or their families, or share their values; you can't know whether you will respect the judgment of the administrators because they are complete strangers to you.  If you happen to have good friends or co-workers whose kids go to school X, and they tell you your family would be happy there, that is some help.  Otherwise you are left with anecdotes such as what we read on DCUM that may paint a distorted picture.  As you say, it's a huge amount of money to commit to a big unknown ... not to mention a terribly important part of our children's lives. [/quote]

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