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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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At least some public schools have major behavioral issues that the teachers struggle to address because the schools have limited authority to expel students. My mom worked in a public school for years as a school librarian—the same public school I went to for elementary school. She noticed a major decline in behavior toward the end, with classroom evacuations and the like. That never happened when I was a kid, but between iPhones, the Covid effect (kids not having to follow classroom rules for multiple years when they were at home) and many of the upper middle class families leaving the school, it slid into a Title I school with major issues.

The school closest to us (and by that I mean right behind our backyard) is a title I school with a lot of documented behavioral issues and extremely low test scores (eg at one point only 12% of the kids were meeting grade level standards in math). We chose Catholic school, and have encountered zero behavioral issues.[/quote]

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