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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All these things you can find in good public school districts.[/quote]

Most public school parents are ignorant about how bad public school education is because they have no point of comparison, especially those who are Millennials and Gen Z.

The best school district in VA is Falls Church. At the high school level, it is no match for Sidwell, NCS/STA, GDS, or Potomac. [/quote]

I read this thread because I send child to one of these schools from Nova.  My experience with my neighborhood cohort from is: they are just as educated — if not more so — than the private school set.   [b]This is because those schools place a huge emphasis on financial aid so there are many UMC kids.[/b]   Not true in my neighborhood.  Things change when you are talking about the local really great public HS which feeds from several neighborhoods.   But the idea that my neighbors are stupid is ignorant.   They are oft times hug believers in public schools.  Nova is a big place.   [/quote]

Who places a huge emphasis on financial aid? 
At most of the schools you listed above, 75% to 80%+ of families pay the total cost (tuition, plus fees). Walking the walk is much harder than talking the talk. [/quote]

At Sidwell, 1 in 4 students in the US is on financial aid.  25%.   That is MUCH higher than my local neighborhood elementary school bounded geographically by housing that costs $2M+.   Sidwell US is WAY more economically diverse than most economically segregated neighborhoods. [/quote]

That means 75% of US families pay full tuition at Sidwell. All of the families I know who receive FA at Sidwell are college educated professionals with graduate degrees—without exception. The UMC “economic diversity” these families bring to Sidwell is largely coming from two fed. families, college professors, and nonprofit managers.

Please pipe down with the false narrative that schools like Sidwell are educating a broad swath of families from across the economic spectrum. [/quote]

Two fed families can have an income of $550k.  One kid and they don’t get FA.

And I’m at a Big3/sidwell and the economic diversity is way greater than my neighborhood ES which was the point of my post.  Not pretending that Sidwell was doing gods work and educating the masses. We agree on that.   Nobody and I mean a big fat zero at my loc ES in Nova are from the parts of town where some kids live at my Big3.  I’m not complaining—just pointing out an inconsistency amongst a small segment of private school families.  [/quote]

I’m at Sidwell too and you’re really exaggerating the economic diversity at the school. Outside of *some* recruited athletes, there really aren’t many families on the low end of the economic spectrum at Sidwell. The fact remains that over 75% of families pay full tuition, and the families I know who receive FA at Sidwell have HHIs of at least $300k. Don’t confuse residential choices with income. There are families who choose to live in PG County and they pay full tuition.

P.S. You’re correct about one thing—two fed families can have a relatively high income, and they would definitely be ineligible for FA. So I retract that example. [/quote]

I think we probably mostly agree.  I’m not arguing that Sidwell is truly economically diverse.  It’s not.  It’s just that it is more diverse than a wealthy inner neighborhood suburban elementary which are geographically limited by the $2M-$3M homes in their boundary.  It’s why I suspect a lot of rich minorities don’t want to send their kids to these predominately white little elementary enclaves.  [/quote]

We probably are mostly in agreement. However, I don’t agree that schools like Sidwell are more economically diverse than public schools in even the wealthiest DC Metro suburbs. There are no public high schools in this area that are exclusively zoned for $2M-$3M+ homes (not to mention IB townhouses and apartments). Name a neighborhood in this area and it’s zoned high school and I will find IB housing that’s under $1M. Like Sidwell, there’s an economic range at public schools in the wealthiest DC Metro neighborhoods. However, I believe the economic floor is generally lower at those wealthy public schools than a $60k/year top private.[/quote]

Let’s play.  I bet you don’t really know the suburbs.   You just think you do.  Jamestown, Taylor. Arlington. Kent Gardens, Chesterbrook, Fairfax.  Go.  And you have to have enough housing to support having some realistic population of school aged children so finding one house doesn’t count.  
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If you want to play, make sure you follow the guidelines. I said to name the neighborhood AND the zoned HIGH SCHOOL. Don’t move the goal posts. I will provide ONE Zillow/Redfin listing per zoned high school. We can safely assume that if there is one zoned house or condo under $1M, there are others in that building or on that block. I don’t work for you. I’m graciously proving a point. If you want multiple examples, do your own research.[/quote]

But my entire posts were only about ES.   In ES, you get more economic and racial diversity at the Sidwells of our our world. That was it.  I have repeatedly said things are different in HS.  Sounds like we agree…again.  [/quote]

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