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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents switched me in 9th and was a huge improvement.  As a result, my kids never set foot in a public school through 12th.  The oldest did choose a state flagship and, contrary to one of the upstream posts, was plenty prepared to self-advocate and navigate the bureaucracy inherent in those institutions.  If you have the money, private is nearly always the best choice. [/quote]

Private schools vary widely in this areas as do publics.  The very good public HS (and I mean like the top five in either side or the river; not DCPS) beat out academically most of the mediocre private schools because we as taxpayers spend a lot on our educational systems and the base of families in the zones tend to be rich and very very educated.   That being said, we live in one of those HS zones and we chose a Big3 and we did so for academic reasons.

Rational people send their kids to privates all the time so the kid can make the sports teams or can get 1:1 daily oversight on whether they are turning in their homework or just so they can be around other kids who pay for school and that social set is important to the parents.  But I think it’s a really big stretch to say that private is “almost always” better than public.   Frankly, I thought the kids who left our really affluent public ES for private were generally weird kids who had some difficulty and required extra attention. [/quote]

For me it was a "W" school to a MoCo independent school (by choice). My sibling stayed in public (also by choice) and received an inferior education. [/quote]

Does that really matter in the grand scheme?  Are you claiming your sibling is less successful in life because they stayed at a “W” school?
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