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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Think hard about the stress on your children and family life.  We did it for a short time and while the education was better it was not sustainable.  The traffic in DC gets worse over time not better.  The families who lived closer to school had a better time socially and excluded others who didn't live near them.[/quote]

we did not have that problem because we live in a snooty neighborhood so friends are from church and scouts.  My two!!!! (and two to go) kids will be commuting home for over an hour next year, taking two metro buses and then a hefty walk, but BASIS is SO worth it.  Kind of sad neither of us can pick them up and use that time to talk, but older one used to talk to friends now I hope the sibs will bond...............

if the education is better I think it depends on what level you are at.  Educated families can compensate for a crappy ES by supplementing, and can even provide language immersion.  But once you have kids in physics, bio, chem, world history, Chinese and precalculus there is NO WAY we could provide all that and we are not a peer group of kids where it is cool to be smart, especially when it will take you all the way to college............[/quote]

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