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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, to get back to the original question at the top of thread.

Whether private school is worth it or not is dependent on how much money you have, how bad your alternatives are, and what you want to optimize for as a family.

If you have access to good public schools and the cost of private will cause stress / meaningful trade-offs, then no -- probably not worth it.

If your public school is terrible or your kid truly needs something that the public school can't offer -- then yeah, probably worth stretching the budget a bit to try private.

And if you have enough money that the $40-60K a year truly doesn't create any financial burden, then do whatever you want.

Truly, there's no perfect answer here -- it depends on what YOU and your family want to optimize for.

Our kids are in a DCPS charter and we always thought we would leave for a private sometime in early elementary. Now our kids are in 3rd and 5th.

Are there things about a private which would likely objectively be better than a charter? For sure. But our kids are super happy, have incredible friends, are learning a ton and getting support in school to advance quickly, and we have a very close group of school neighborhood friends.

When we took a step back as a family, we realized that whatever marginal 'benefits' we would get from a private weren't worth either the financial cost or the potential disruption of switching schools. That might change as the kids get older and we recognize that might mean the 'option' sets are smaller, but we're ok with that.

Other families might make a different choice than us, and that's ok!! You just need to be very clear about your family values, what trade-offs you are making, and what you are optimizing for.

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It’s another world once you reach middle school. Your children are still elementary aged. Public is great at that level.[/quote]

Oh yeah -- 1000%!! Sorry I should have added at the bottom that priorities change over time, ours likely will too! [/quote]

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