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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At a work event, I recently met a Landon graduate who's now in his late 20s.  He impressed me as being very smart, personable, and poised.  I told him we had considered Landon for our son (although we ultimately chose a different school).  He said he and his fellow Landon friends have talked about whether it was worth it for them to go to Landon, and how they're uniformly on the fence about whether or not it was worth it.

But he seemed so thoughtful and genuine that it made me think that it probably was worth the tuition, even if he didn't recognize the school's impact on him.

I think his friends mostly contemplated how public school would have freed up their parents to invest that money and be more comfortable in retirement.  That's a good point.  But for most people, if you don't send your kid to private, are you necessarily setting aside an extra $30,000 to invest each year?  (I do know one neighbor who did this for their twins -- sent them to MCPS for elementary and saved the equivalent in private school tuition for each child each year.)  Now, for 6th grade, they are able to do private with the capital gains.[/quote]

My DH went to Landon.  He feels the same as this young man and will not send our son to Landon ever. [/quote]
Where will you send them instead?[/quote]

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