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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids have been in private throughout (now one in college, one senior in HS) and my spouse has been a public high school teacher.  We live in DC and could afford private throughout, but were I to do it again, at least for my kids who had no special issues and were quite extroverted and social, I would consider public for elementary school (particularly after a great preschool or even preschool through K in private) and move back to private for HS for sure, MS maybe.  I think a reasonable elementary school (ie upper NW DC, Monty County, Fairfax County, for a kid with no particular learning issues, can be absolutely fine) but the difference in the academic/intellectual atmosphere between private and public for HS, perhaps with the exception of places like TJ or Blair magnet, is striking, and the amount of writing, critical thinking my kids have done in their private HS is so far beyond what I did, even in a supposedly top public (similar to Whitman) or to what their friends have done in public that I am really glad they were in private particularly for HS academically, and I think private MS socially.  So if I had to choose, I for sure would do private for HS first, MS second and LS third.[/quote]

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