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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have been searching for houses in "excellent" school districts and the more and more we do the numbers the more we realize we just can't afford it. The best we can do is average. My older child who starts k this fall is highly motivated and extremely intelligent.

We put great importance on education and we will be totally involved in helping our kids be successful so basically I would just like to get some real world experiences if you couldn't afford a house in a "W" school.
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Highly intelligent and motivated kids + involved parents = academic success.  We are in MoCo.  Our peers live in W school neighborhoods. We live in what is considered "Bumfuckistan" on DCUM.  Kids excel in MCPS school and outside of it.

You have to be savvy about getting them the enrichment and opportunities that MCPS does not provide - in W schools and in so called "ghetto" schools. MCPS is equal opportunity low bar in education organization. However, private schools are even worse and MCPS is still better than majority of US.  To have truly well educated and successful students in this country - you have to put in place a parallel system of education for them. You cannot depend on any school to do what is best for your student. You have to do that yourself.

So, basically we bought a house we liked and are living a great lifestyle on our 5%er HHI (300K) because of our low mortgage - we have cleaners, lawn service, fully funded college and retirement, tutors, EC activities, yearly foreign jaunts.  [/quote]

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