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[quote=Anonymous]I moved to NW DC when my kid was going into kindergarten, public school.  The parents were pretty friendly, almost all the moms work outside the home. The pickup and drop off was striking to me at first because it was half dads.  As a working mom l appreciate that.

Something l didn’t anticipate was that the level of education of most of the parents is very high, like it seems like half or more have a PhD. Lots of interesting well travelled people.  They push their kids a lot in sports and academics.  I don’t like that.  I mean does your kindergartner really need to be reading chapter books?  I moved my kid to a small private in 2nd grade due to Covid.  It’s actually less competitive and less pressure.  All the kids are taught to their level. I couldn’t believe in public how my normal kid (according to his teacher) already felt behind in first grade because the class was so segregated by reading levels already.  I didn’t even know the alphabet when l started kindergarten, so this was a shock. I’m from Canada.

With your budget l would think about spending less on the housing and maybe spring for private school.  Unless you are up for supplementing and pushing your kids a lot to keep up.  Maybe this has all changed with COVID though.

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