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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My children have done private and public and I have a child in private now but will probably do public for hs.  I think it is more humane/  I do not see the right private school for my kid.  The all boys would not be his thing, Sidwell is hard for the sake of being hard, Maret is too small.  Maybe GDs would work.  But I have to admit I just do not see the benefit.  I see tradeoffs but not really benefits.  I know many kids at dc privates get burned out.  I do not want that to happen.  [/quote]

You are looking at a really small pool of privates.  There are tons of great schools in DC.  Look beyond the Big 3, and you'll probably find a good fit for your son.  My kids are in great small privates that have rigorous academics, balanced with  a rich complement of extracurriculars.  They definitely would not fit in to the pressure cooker schools like the Big 3.  [/quote]

Different PP here. You have a point about stress at the top privates, and we actually know parents who choose Bullis over Sidwell for this reason (as Dave Barry would say, I'm not making this up and the kid was accepted at both schools). But a recurring question on DCUM is, are some of these second-tier privates really better than the local publics combined with using part of the $30K to buy music lessons and trips to exotic places? I don't want to get into a name-throwing. But I think it's legitimate to ask what you're buying in terms of academic quality. At the second tier privates, it becomes more of an issue of small class sizes and nurturing environment, which is a great thing for kids who need it, but that's not every kid.[/quote]

I have kids in both.  I've posted before, and we are pulling our MS kid from public and putting him in private.  There is a huge disparity in the quality of the education my MS public school child is receiving vs. my other two who are in privates.  Why was he in public?  Because he was in a magnet program that arguably was a better fit for him.  Turned out to be a huge shell game and we are putting him private where he can be in the optimal educational setting for him.  I've said it before, in public school, the children and parents are NOT the customers.  [/quote]

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