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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids went to public ES, then moved to Sidwell for MS and HS.  If I had it to do over, I'd wait to move them until HS; middle school isn't really worth it.  The advantages to waiting until later to move (aside from saving a boatload of money, of course) are that your kid will have some sense of the real world, rather than just the private school bubble, and that you'll have a better sense of which school would be the right match for him/her.  As some PPs have noted, lifers sometimes end up at the wrong school (though I don't buy the line that the lifers are all at the bottom of the class -- some are, but there are always lifers right up at the tippy-top too).  Finally, OP, please don't talk yourself into believing that your child must go to private school or she'll never get into a good college or grad school or find the right mate or succeed professionally or . .. yadda, yadda, yadda.  Our kids have had good peers and teachers at Sidwell, but honestly, no school is perfect -- or even close.       [/quote]

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