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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please tell me about the “sense of community” you are referring to at private.

I am the one who believes writing is better at private.

I firmly believe you are losing out on community when you move.  Read the private school dcum. I have kids in APS and Big 3.  There is no substitute for a neighborhood school, and particularly one like Jamestown.   Your kid will know their neighborhood; the neighborhood will know your kid. You will know the families.  Your kid will go to school with little Jimmy and then show up on his soccer team on Saturday.  You will stand on the sidelines with the parents and it will turn out they live behind you.  You will have a drink together and turns out everyone went to Georgetown and you knew little Jimmy’s dads sister.  Little Jimmys moms neighbor has a child in the next grade and you all get together and you know everything about the next grades teachers.  Little Jimmy can run over to his new friends house at the drop of a hat.   The kids can have some freedom without structured play dates with weird mom interactions.  Everyone loves the school and community.

Private school is really, really different.  People live far apart.  You aren’t standing together on the sidelines as frequently.  It’s a lot harder to get little Jimmy together with little Johnny.  You see people in carpool which just isn’t the same as walking with parents to/from school while the kids play.

I just think you need to be realistic.  Yes, you are right about writing but really wrong about community.  [/quote]

You may not even see other parents in the carpool line. Most of the time it will be the nanny doing pick up.[/quote]

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