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Take a look at the private schools within a 30 minute drive as well or whatever you deem reasonable as a commute to school. Once your kids are ready for school you might be surprised that you want to consider private[/quote]

I struggle to understand the value proposition of private school in our area. We already pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes that fund some of the best public schools in the country - and despite that people are willing to pay an additional $20-30k in tuition every year for 12 years? Is the quality of education at the private school in our area really that much better? Does it translate to that much more money earned when the kid enters the workforce, or that much more social-emotional well-adjusted-ness? Even if money were no object, I find the marginal value of private school very low.[/quote]

You didn’t watch the kavanaugh trial did you? Missed that whole part when 5 yes 5 different people in the room knew certain particulars about Georgetown Prep because they all attended.

Reading this post and I am so astounded by Op I don’t even know how to feel. She completely writes off the possibility that her kid could be the next AA inventor or prodigy. Talk about racing to the bottom and setting her kid up for failure and to be around parents who get high so the kids have access to drugs (there’s a recent post about that), parents who dgaf and aren’t around (aka fatherless) so no parent home after school pregnancy breeding grounds. These dangerous schools where kids are getting jumped and stabbed and shot are perfectly ok for her middling kid. Um what?

Montgomery is more affordable than FCPS and there are some great schools in Howard as well both are racially diverse. That said, I think it needs to be said that most white people in this area are extremely welcoming of minorities in general and aren’t some 1940s boogeyman you need to protect your kid from so OP why don’t you meet some and get to know some instead of limiting yourself and your kid to school districts based on race. Anyway you don’t want to live around them so might i suggest you concentrate on finding minority neighborhoods in close proximity to an affordable private school with good elementary and middle schools and get your baby started with a 529 asap like with your next paycheck. In the east I see Glenarden Woods elementary school, Dora Kennedy French and Robert Goddard with more good elementary and middle schools in Laurel Maryland. Silver spring and Kensington more affordable than most places in Virginia & very commuter friendly excellent elementary schools.

Idk what friends Op has and why they’re telling her education doesn’t matter but bad schools and bad neighborhoods go hand in hand if you ask me and houses are lower cost in those areas because duh they aren’t great investments [/quote]

Very much agree with everything you said. [/quote]

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