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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the District, 3K per month will get you a 2BR condo if you want to be near good public schools.  If you'd like a single family home, there might be a few things in that range (likely townhouses) in Bethesda MD or Arlington, VA which have excellent schools and a short commute into DC.  There will be more inventory farther out in Fairfax County VA or in Rockville MD, where the schools are also good.

The District is well served by Metro and is very walkable.  Parts of Arlington and Bethesda are as well.  Smaller swaths of Fairfax are served by Metro, and it is a sea of strip malls.  DC has the worst traffic in the country, and many families make commuting distance a priority.

Most kids in the District attend public preschool, either through DC Public Schools or charter schools.  However, in neighborhoods with the schools with the highest test scores, the schools are so overcrowded that they can't really accommodate preschool classes, so parents in those neighborhoods usually pay for private preschools or send their kids to public preschool in another part of the city.

There are a few private preschools that are known as feeder preschools to the top private schools - National Child Research Center, St John's Episcopal, Little Folks, School for Friends etc.  However, these schools have an admissions time table that mirrors private schools; i.e. you apply the winter before the September your child will enter.  Additionally, the huge proliferation of public preschools has blown the market wide open, so that the idea of feeder preschools is a bit weaker than it was.  [/quote]

I think there are only two things here I would take issue with. One is that, maybe on for ES, where the charters are good, but definately for MS/HS DCPS is pretty bad across the board. Even the Deal/Wilson track, which seems to be the only "good" option, does no better than the very worst FCPS or MCPS schools. Also parts of Fairfax county are pretty moderate to conservative. But there are definately liberal areas. Vice versa in Montgomery county. [/quote]

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