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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This exact same question was asked about 6 months ago.

We've been generally pleased with MCPS -- the ES teachers are incredible, and the HS have a diverse offering of challenging courses with many very good teachers.  There are a few weak spots, but I figure kids should learn that every rose has its thorns and it helps develop resiliency when everything isn't just handed to you.  Also a very big factor is the ability to have neighborhood friends.  My friends with kids in private school have a very different social life for their kids -- it's very structured.  My kids can just hop on a bike and head to the park and find school friends, or ride around to their friends' houses.  That's huge.

The diversity of family backgrounds is nice too, although I admit that our ES is not the most socio-economically diverse.  A lot of the private school options around here are either religious -- which poses its own diversity problems -- or single-sex, which is non-diverse in a different way.

FWIW, I went to public school in a state that is *not* known for its public education system, and my husband went to a very fancy private school.  He is often frustrated that there are some issues for which there's no good resolution, but I'm like "eh, that's life."  There is a TON more hand-holding of both parents and kids at private school --- maybe it will turn out to be a bad thing that we didn't do it, as we have one child that seems to need a lot of  hand-holding.  Our oldest, though, has become a very independent person who is very good at self-advocacy and problem-solving.  If there's an issue, she figures out a way to fix it, or a work-around.  I'm not sure that would have happened in private school.

For us, it would add up to like a million dollars over the whole education life of all our children....it's just really hard to justify dropping that kind of cash when we have a pretty good free educational system.  I'd rather send it to kids in another country that don't have any educational system.[/quote]

So are you sending a million dollars to kids abroad?[/quote]

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