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Take a look at the private schools within a 30 minute drive as well or whatever you deem reasonable as a commute to school. Once your kids are ready for school you might be surprised that you want to consider private[/quote]

I struggle to understand the value proposition of private school in our area. We already pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes that fund some of the best public schools in the country - and despite that people are willing to pay an additional $20-30k in tuition every year for 12 years? Is the quality of education at the private school in our area really that much better? Does it translate to that much more money earned when the kid enters the workforce, or that much more social-emotional well-adjusted-ness? Even if money were no object, I find the marginal value of private school very low.[/quote]

This is coming from a foreigner with no kids yet, so take what I am about to say with a grain of salt (as I don't know how private schools are generally setup here).

If I could afford to pay 50k for private (sidwell and etc), I would want my, hypothetical, kids to go there. Not necessarily because the quality of education would be that much better (it most likely won't if comparing good public to goos private in area), and also not because of better college outcomes (in some ways I'd argue going top private may hurt top college outcomes).

But because I would assume that the private schools are safer (given the ridiculous gun epdicemic in this country and dumb rednecks focus on the 2nd amendment). Seeing all these school shootings make me worry a bit, and I would assume the private school has better security (when I was at a private abroad, we had probably over a hundred guards on campus at once).

The other value that I can see, is that your kids will be surrounded with the kids of influential people and people that matter, which could also be helpful for your kid in the future. 
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"People that matter."  This is so incredibly gross.[/quote]

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