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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the reason why people get upset about your decision to go private is because they want you in public because your family - presumably wealthy, educated, and valuing education for you and your child - would make public schools better.

I know I feel that way.  I'm in the trenches, sending DS to DCPS and working to make them better.  I want as many allies as possible in this effort, and it makes me upset when those families are lost to private schools.

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I think many families just want to live in a neighborhood where all the kids go to the same school. When kids go to many different schools, it starts to break up the neighborhood. Alexandria could probably be a top notch educational system with all the money there, but too many families go on to private school. Families that do want to live in a neighborhood with a strong public school system, won't move to the neighborhoods where private is popular further weakening the public school there. People get upset about magnet schools in a very similar way to private school choices simply because it's different from the local school.[/quote]

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