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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. stay where you are or move to another nice inexpensive place and spend your money in private school[/quote]

Having had kids in MoCo (Takoma, immersion, magnets) and private school, I recommend you ignore this advice. Unless your kid gets into a "top 3," many area private schools don't offer much more than a good MoCo public.[/quote]

Not only that, but do the math. At least if you choose a non-parochial independent school (the only ones, in my opinion, which may be better academically than the MoCo top publics) you must figure 30k every year for the rest of their schooling -- and each child adds on to this burden. This can end up being a lot more $$ than just buying a more expensive home in a better school cluster.[/quote]

Actually -- the private school tuitions keep going up. 30k right now may well be 40k/yr by the time for DC hits high school. True story - when we started our kids in private it was 15k/yr -- 8 years later it was 28k. Yikes! [/quote]

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