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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are also in Arlington and sending our kids to private next year.  They will all be in lower school, never thought we would head down this path, but i have no faith in APS at this point.  DH and I are both from public school background.  Lots of bus options to the Bethesda schools from N. Arlington/Mclean.  Applied to Potomac, but were waitlisted.  Its very difficult to get into with so many people going private right now, whether that will change as we get farther away from Covid, who knows.  I think Covid just really highlighted how public school cannot be creative and pivot when the situation calls for it.  I honestly don't see that changing and that's why we are going private.  I'm cannot believe how much we have to pay for it though...i'm still processing that, but if I'm going to spend my money on something, my kids education seems like the right way to allocate it.[/quote]

OP here - totally agree with you that I did not expect to be doing this so soon. I get a sense that maybe APS were good a while back but not so much anymore (all relative - they’re still better than the rest of the country). Two of my neighbors that went private bc of covid said they did not expect their kids would have a hard time but once they got to the private they realized the straight As in APS do not translate to straight As in private and the first year was rocky. I hope Potomac will come through with wait list if you’re still hoping for that. About the cost - I’m weary of the whole application process because I don’t know which schools are worth it.  Know people argue about the big 3 and I don’t exactly understand what those are and it probably varies based on who you ask. We’re not if the mind that we have to got to a TOP school but if we’re going to pay 40k+ it needs to be good. Where I grew up there were a lot of not good private schools and I don’t want to go that route inadvertently

Are you at a regular APS school or an option school? That seems to matter too, [/quote]

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