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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is kind of a silly question.  Most parents choose to not drop 40k a year on private school when there is a good public school option.  There are benefits of going to private school, but for most those benefits aren't worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.  [/quote]

Not all private schools are 40K.  The school we are looking at for one of our DCs is parochial, and $13K a year.  That's still a lot of money to many folks (including us) but it's not a year of private college tuition.

For us, with two very different kids, the discussion has been "Yes, it's better, but is it $13K a year better?"

For our oldest, no.  Our oldest is thriving in public school (MCPS).  She needs a ton of kids around, is high achieving but not "gifted" and loves the opportunities she has to be on student government or play in the band.  Our youngest is different, more reserved, and likely "gifted" in the sense of genuinely needing to be engaged differently because of how his brain works.

So, it's a luxury to be able to consider, but I think there are a lot of families like ours that are making decisions based on their individual kids. [/quote]

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