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We’re a family that can afford private, but my head and heart are in different places.

My heart says that it wants to try public for K through 5 to build community with our neighbors. Our local DCPS school is rated at 7 out of 10 on a public rating site, and our neighbors who sent their kids there are almost all happy with it (and most go onto public MS).

My head says that our kids will get a better education, be less stressed and more nurtured emotionally, exposed to more and varied core subjects (including foreign language and science in the core curriculum) from K—&gt; on, and be safer (guns, behavioral issues) in private.

Personally, I fear the repercussions of starting my kid off with a silver spoon - and the reality that kids would be located all over DC, MoCo, and NoVa - will hurt our chances of building strong enduring family friendships.

We’re not religious, so we don’t belong to a church or synagogue and don’t have a channel to make friends over time that way.

How would you advise us to decide b/w public and private? We’ve tossed in applications to top privates JIC.

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Just stop.

No private is "safer" from guns or drugs etc.. .That is absurd.
"behavioral issues" again you are an idiot. Private has just as many as public. Mommy & daddy donate kid stays, not to mention most privates have no counselors.

Send your kid to public you fool you need the help.

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It’s completely false that most privates don’t have counselors. [/quote]

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