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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry you found out the hard way that TONS of families in McLean send their kids to private school.

FWIW, we send one kid to public and one to private but we only send the one to private because he was not thriving in  public. My default is public schools however I'm kind of glad we're almost done with the craziness that is now FCPS (our oldest is a rising senior). There is so much divisiveness now and so many people are trashing the teachers. I hate the current environment.[/quote]

We moved to McLean with a preschool aged child and two kids in elementary. The vast majority of all our neighbors and kids from our preschool go private. Then at our elementary school, I noticed many of the public school students switched to private in 3rd and 7th grade. That does not include the kids who switched because of covid and did not come back.

The students who are left seem like those who can’t afford private school tuition.

I do have access to the Langley senior college admissions and they are fantastic this year. I don’t necessarily think my kids would get into a better college frlm a private school. I feel like the actual education would be better.[/quote]

I also have access to the Langley college matriculation list, and apart from a few athlete recruits that went to the high tier Ivys, it was nothing special. I feel like the more affluent public schools will always have a few more at the top than the lower tier public schools, but apart from that the bottom 75% of every public school in FCPS is the same. [/quote]

Op here. For our decision, we are comparing AP/AAP in McLean to privates. [/quote]

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