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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me give some advice as a parent of teenagers:  where your kid goes to elementary school really does not matter. [/quote]

:lol:  so true![/quote]
 This, for so many kids.

I will also add as a parent of multiple teenagers (who has seen both public and private and spent years in the thick of all the application nonsense) that sometimes what you thought you wanted changes and you end up going to public for HS at one of the many great options in the DMV area, and then kick yourself for thinking private was so much better in the first place. No school around here is perfect. Kids change from age 5 to age 15, a lot. Of course no one knows what they have not experienced for themselves, but for so many kids with the means to pay for private school, what school they go to will have little effect of future outcomes, learning or happiness; family situation and involvement matters much more. [b]And don't be fooled into thinking that a "exceptionally smart" kid will do better in private. Not usually the case for most schools in this area.
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It’s not the ‘exceptionally bright’ kids who do better in private, it’s the above average kids that do.

Exceptional kids are best suited for public schools in the DMV.

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