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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH and I are combined 600-800k HHI/year and live in Cleveland Park.  Both products of middle class backgrounds and public school.  Many around us do private school, though I am sensing a shift, especially for the earlier years.  We actually find it more important for the SES diversity than anything (DC is race-diverse in most every ward - it's the SES that I think counts more in DC's case).  We don't want our kids growing up thinking that what we have is what everyone has.  We also think the schools are good as evidenced by others who we know who go to them and like it, so we're happy with our options.  Our aim is to keep public the whole way through.  [b]With the $ we save on school before college, we can spend so much more on other things we value more for our kids if/when needed/wanted - tutors, foreign travel/exposure, grad school etc. [/b]

Our aim is to have our children be happy.  If the excel, they will excel no matter where they go.  If they are average, hopefully they can find their bliss.  We are not trying to create hedge fund managers and presidents to validate ourselves.  We want to produce well-rounded, decent people and beings, and this is our path.[/quote]

This, along with diversity linkage, is why we send our child to public school.  Although we are very well off, to afford private school, enrichment programs, camps with more than one child would be astronomical.

We currently live in Minnesota (corporate move) which is evolving, becoming more of a diverse state.  I'm from LA and grew up with many different cultures around me; I actually felt uncomfortable in MN at first. Exposing your children to different cultures and income levels should be a strong consideration. You can always change schools later, middle, high school- it would be hard to transfer either way anyhow.[/quote]

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