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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a friend who was looking at private schools for her child. She believed that it was her responsibility to pick the right school for him, and that should be her focus. Things like distance/ease of commute, whether there was a bus that picked up in the neighborhood, etc., where factors that were not about what was best for her son and so they should not be considered when making the decision.

A few years in, she told me that if she were making the decision again, the very factors she had dismissed as not important were where she would start her process of elimination. So her search for the "perfect school" would not start with "what's best for DC?" but with, "what's most convenient for our family and among THOSE choices, what's best for DC?"

This really stuck with me. It really is okay--even right--to start from the premise that your DCs' schools should work for your family.[/quote]

I think you make a great point here. If the school is so very special... it still might make you resent/or not be able to do it. Our "perfect" school is 30-1 hour away. It is not working. The traffic in DC is awful and that makes every decision about can I get there or not? On the other hand we had a school much closer and it was nicer and we accomplished more by not spending so much time driving. A DC commute is just as soul draining as a work commute, and if they are in different directions...not worth it to me, anyway.[/quote]

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