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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here and I have only read a few pages, not the whole thread.

I can understand some of the reasons that parents might choose a private school for their child.  What I don't understand is, if you aren't going to take advantage of one of the stronger public school systems in the state, why would you pay the school district premium and live in MoCo.  In Montgomery County, you pay a lot for the school zones.  You can pay significantly less and get significantly more and better housing outside MoCo than you can in the County.  That plus the horrible traffic/congestion, the high COL (it costs about 10-20% more for everything from gas to groceries to home goods in MoCo as it does outside the county) and I can't understand paying all that to live in the County and not even use the school system.[/quote]

Exactly. Few of us planned to go private at the outset. That's the point of this thread. Now I have one in private middle school and one in public elementary and find we are very enmeshed in our awesome MoCo neighborhood. I love being able to walk everywhere, take metro, and have access to neighborhood parks and lots of friends for my kids. But had I known the outcome, we might have bought a cheaper house elsewhere. Tho it would not have appreciated nearly as much...
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