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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds like the best solution for you OP. Nothing that is available in public school will appeal to you - it doesn't matter if it is Reggio, Montessori, or play-based as the majority of DCPS/DCPCS are. I don't think you will even find what you want in most privates to be honest. You sound insufferable and you are encouraging your child to become even more of a snowflake than you've already made her. I'm being harsh with you because I truly think you have no conception of how much your self-centered thinking affects others when you try to have every luxury you want at no sacrifice to yourself. Have you offered to collect cans or do other piece-meal work to add to the coffers, even after hearing what other PPs and their parents did?[/quote]

OP here.  This doesn't warrant a response, but okay, I'll bite.  Please lay out for me how I'm being selfish... because it's clear you came at my question with your shorts in a bundle from the beginning and determined to make a point that you can't seem to make stick, so you just keep getting nastier and nastier.  From the start, you've assumed I fit some stereotype of a selfish person perhaps you've met at your kid's school and dislike, but if you actually paid attention to anything I've said, you would have noticed that I just can't be pegged into the stereotype.

First, I have never asked for a "handout" from schools, nor have I assumed that I would get one.  If you read my initial post, you would have noticed that I said I didn't think we'd qualify for financial aid, so this was not on my radar.  I have never said that I felt entitled to any funds from these schools or other places.  Other people have simply answered my question about how they pay for private school (which was my initial question) and said that they receive financial aid despite having what seems like a fairly high income (though as one PP pointed out, we don't know their level of debt, etc.).

Second, you should also have noticed that I said I gave staying at home a lot of thought before choosing to do it and did so with some sacrifices for myself (career, income, expenses, etc).  I also mentioned in a subsequent post that I have done part-time work on the evenings and weekends so that I could work without needing to pay for childcare but that I'm not doing that at the moment because I have a young baby.  And I said that although I would ideally stay home with this baby until he's a bit older, I absolutely plan to go back to work in the future when both kids are in school.

Furthermore, I have been extremely active in my child's preschools (including one that was a coop, so I was working in the classroom once a week in addition to doing a lot of volunteer work on initiatives for the schools outside of the classroom).  As a SAHM, I'm probably more available to do a lot of these things than other parents may be, so I've actually contributed a LOT to the schools that my kid has gone to besides simply writing checks for tuition, and I intend to continue to do that as my kids get older.

Finally, I don't live in the city, so DC charter schools with alternative methods of instruction are not an option for us.  While I can see the reasons why homeschooling might make sense for us, I also feel strongly that a school environment is very beneficial for kids (especially shy ones), that teachers at such a school could do a better job than I could, and that kids benefit from experiencing a variety of different teaching/leadership styles from multiple adults in their lives.  Our current preschool uses one of the methodologies you mention and is FANTASTIC.  As I mentioned in my recent post, it's a major reason why I would like to try to find an elementary school of similar quality.

If parents who consider sending their kids to private school because they think it may be better for them than public school are automatically "special snowflakes," then I certainly think yours fall into the same category.[/quote]

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