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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having observed GDS as a step parent…

Save your money. Seriously. The public schools around here are great and would be even better if highly motivated academically focused kids like those at Maret, Sidwell, GDS etc attended them. Parents, instead of throwing wads and wads of cash at private schools, send your kid to a public school, volunteer there and put the money you'd save on tuition towards college or, gasp, give it to charity.

Not a single kid in my family went to private school and we all did fine (Princeton, Harvard, Penn, VPI and various law and med schools). WHY would you start paying $30K per year in grade school? Think if you saved that money for a down payment on a house for your kid or set up a fund or donated it to charity!

I guarantee if my step kid went to Wilson she would be doing exactly as well as she is doing now in college.[/quote]

I agree with some of this, except that in my experience with Wilson grads (those more on the "Yale" track than the "jail" track BTW), they can't write as well as I would have assumed.  The leading independent schools do a much better job of developing writing skills.[/quote]

I also don't recall ever hearing of them having to lock GDS down because someone brought a handgun to school. I'm fairly sure that has happened at least once this school year already...[/quote]

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