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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ignore most of these posts, OP.

You have got a very bitter contingency of people who can't afford private school here desperately feeling the need to label it as "stupid." It isn't, there are many reasons to send kids to private if you can afford it. Which you can. [/quote]
NP. I agree it doesn’t make sense to label OP’s question as stupid, but it strikes me and clearly many others as financially unwise to send 3 kids to private in this situation, especially if there is not any compelling need to do so. Maybe there is. OP has not provided one.

I’m not anti-private school at all. Several of our friends whose kids were overwhelmed in public are doing better in private. While we could easily afford this, our kids had/are having a great experience in MCPS. The college outcomes for our older two were at least as good as those of unhooked peers with similar high stats at DC area privates, and they were very well prepared for college. We were able to put enough into each of their 529s to easily cover any college and grad school for all 3, while growing our net worth and being in a position to retire early, which I did in my mid 50s.  Most people on the Money and Finances forum are going to think that path is preferable to worsening your future financial prospects without a very good reason to do so.

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Otoh, you could have raised your net work by not retiring 20 years early.

I’m not mad at you, I’m just pointing out that there are all kinds of paths and choices. This isn’t a game. People can choose differently for more reasons than their “score.”[/quote]

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