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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't you just move to a good school district and save the money for college?  There are so many top notch public schools in MoCo and NoVA this makes no sense to me.[/quote]

Lots of people in the top district send their kids to private school. I don't know the percentage but wouldn't be surprised if it was at least 20%.

I wanted to be able to fund something towards college so that was factored into looking at private schools.  Looked at starting private school in 3rd versus K, would we send both or just one, considering parochial schools in addition to independent schools, maybe only doing private school until 8th grade etc.

For me, getting my child thru elementary and middle school and having that foundation (academic and social/ emotional) is more important than saving for college.  But it is important to add that my attitude has been to try public first and if there is something my child needs and public school is not serving her well, then consider private.  So it isn't like I opted for the BMW, when the Honda Civic would get me from point A to point B and now I'm saying there is no college money.  I have cousins where my mom, the parents, grandparents etc. talk about how bright they were as little boys and could take apart and put anything back together ...and yet by high school ...I just don't want that to me talking about my daughter 10 years from now when I had the power to try to change that path.  [/quote]

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