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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, I think there are some haters and some overgeneralization. People who send their kids to private schools are not necessarily rich and showy. There are many unique things that private schools can offer like small class size, indivualized attention, IB programs, etc. We switched from the public school in MoCo to a private school not because I want to prove to anyone I have money (I am upper middle class not wealthy by any stretch), but I want certain things for my kids' education that are hard to get in the public system.

People have different preferences, and you know what you care about the most. But let's not judge those who send kids to private to justify your own choice of staying in public schools. No better or worse. It is a choice. When you can afford it, then you have two choices in front of you. [/quote]

I do agree with you and many are pompous which irks people. Did you not see the insufferable posts about doing what the rich do, hence go to private?  [/quote]
I'm the PP who used the Range Rover examples.

I'm not against private schools. Like the PP stated, there could be various reasons to choose private.   But, a lot of private school parents seem to be under the impression that the education in private schools is better.  People are just pointing out that this isn't necessarily true.  I think some kids would do better in smaller settings, but there are definitely some kids who would hate the small settings and not having a wide peer group.  Large public schools provide a bigger peer group for higher performing students.  My one very high performing kid went to a rich school out west that didn't have anyone at DC's level.  In the DC area, my kid is still on the higher performing stratus, but there are more like DC than where we were before. And that has been a big benefit for DC.

There is an element of people needing to justify spending $$$ on K-8 education; there is also an element of it being a badge.  Then there is the element of "I don't want my kids surrounded by those people..  I only want them surrounded by my social set".

And then there is the "we're stretching things so my kid can get more individualized attention that they need".

YMMV.[/quote]

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