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[quote=Anonymous]OP, actually to me you sound like a lot of DCUMs who are beginning to contemplate elementary education options for their kids. You want the ultimate, perfect, amazing program for your child and it's suddenly dawning on you that public schools, even great ones, may not be all that. I remember that feeling, and I think it's even worse for SAHMs because you've had the luxury of not having to accept the compromises that inevitably come with FT childcare for young children (whether it's a daycare or nanny.) And you're sitting here reading DCUM and hearing how even the great public school systems, whether it's MoCo or Fairfax or Arlington, are overcrowded and teach to the test and suck in a million other ways.

But here's the dirty little secret: even though public schools may not be as great as they were when you were young or where you grew up, and even though your child is the most special snowflake ever who would thrive in the individualized, high-maintenance world of an elite private school, she will probably do just fine at a decent public school. Even better than just fine. Many of us have kids who do wonderfully in public schools. So pine away for privates, and scheme all you want to figure out how you can get someone else to pay for it. But if and when you come back to the real world, you'll realize the area public schools are pretty damn good and that your child may even thrive there.[/quote]

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