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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's about money but also exposing kids to the real world in a controlled situation.

I am worth millions, personally, but it's in assets, not income. My income is actually quite low. I never wanted to spend my capital on private school, but I was prepared to spend a small portion of it on a house in a wealthy school cluster, since after my kids are done with school, I still have real estate. I have one kid with special needs and one without. For my kid with SN, I feel that our W public with services and accommodations + close parenting + tutoring and therapies has been the optimal solution. The one without is gifted and would have thrived in any school.

I'm also a product of reputable private schools, and getting out of that bubble into the real world was quite an experience. I'd rather my kids go to a wealthy public where they have gentle exposure to actual Life.

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Let me guess your age.  Early 70s?  There is no way - from description you provided of your background  you would be satisfied with MCPS if your spec kid had gone there in the past 15 years.  No way - and Ws are particularly poor in treating Spec Ed.

To Op - private school if you want offspring to be in C-Suite.  Connections cannot be beat.  Personally know several Georgetown Prep grads who would have been ranked very low in public school but used their high school connections VERY well.  Sidwell friends connections likewise.[/quote]

Not a parent, but an alumnus of a non-W school in Bethesda. The latter part is completely untrue. I’m on a C-Suite trajectory now and many of my colleagues come from public HS/universities. If anything, most of the Sidwell/Prep kids aren’t living consequential lives (for example, they still think it’s high school, drug & relationship issues, etc.)

In summary, I will always look to send my kids to public school. If I’m making what I’m going to be making in about a decade or so, and my tax money is going towards the schools, why should I use extra money for private when I can save it for college? Kids in UMC families will be fine regardless of where they go to because they have resources to supplement their learning at home, plus 
the cultural experiences of working with different people, which shows them it’s a wider world out there. Not everything is about status. Public all the way.[/quote]

How many Sidwell and Prep alumni could you possibly know? Anecdotes are not data. Didn’t you learn that in school?

Also, there’s more cultural diversity in top private schools than in most affluent public schools. [/quote]

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