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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a sincere, not trolling question: why do parents around here spend so much on private schools? I did the rough math in my head and if you have a kid at GDS from K-12 you'll end up spending half a million dollars in tuition - is that correct? I can't believe that people have that much money to spend, particularly when there are really good public schools around. I also think that if these families with all these resources put their time and effort into volunteering with the public schools, ALL kids would be the beneficiaries (and isn't one of GDS's missions social justice?). I know there are families who get financial aid, but aren't most parents shelling out close to $35K per year per child?

To the OP, I wonder if you set that money aside for your child wouldn't he be better off in the long run?

Again, I'm not a troll, just someone who grew up in a middle-class military family and can't wrap my head around spending that kind of money.[/quote]

I don't have kids at GDS but at another, similarly priced DC independent school. And believe me, PP, we ask ourselves this question a lot. There is also a lot of discussion about this topic on other threads in this forum, if you want to get a broader base of thoughts.

I appreciate your point that if these families put time and effort into volunteering in the public schools, they may be improved and would benefit more children. That may be the case in some situations, but for us, there are simply too many problems with the bureaucracy of the public school system to make it "fixable" by parent volunteers. The testing, testing, testing, along with the left-leaning curriculum in social science and language arts classes, the fixation on student issues that should be addressed at home, the inability to fire incompetent teachers -- there are just too many inadequacies and distractions within the public school system. So we are sucking it up and shelling it out. [/quote]

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