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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our plan: [b]private ps-8 to establish good study habits[/b], love of learning. If it works and kid is a good student, good public HS. If not, private HS as well.[/quote]

Just curious.  How does a private school help a child establish good study habits?[/quote]

This is just my personal experience but I was in good (but not the best) private schools from k-9.  In 10th grade, we moved to a suburb of Dallas with very good public schools, so my parents sent us to public schools.  10th grade in public was easier than 9th grade in private.  The private was definitely as demanding  or more demanding than honors classes in the public school.  Everyone at the private did 90%+ of their homework.  It really evened out in 11th-12th when I was in some AP classes at the public high school.  And the private elementary and public high school combo prepared me very well for the large public university I attended.  I did think the values at my private middle school were disgusting in terms of priviledge and materialism, but I think some of that is just that age of kids.  At the private, there was definitely an assumption that everyone would go to a competitive college which I think is positive.

So far for our kids:
1) High quality daycare with a parent working part-time
2) Oldest in good DCPS elementary and younger kids to follow
3) Hope we have enough money for private high school to be an option although hoping not to need private
4) Hope we can support the kids to go to the best college they can attend private or public
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