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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you do a search, you'll probably find 20+ threads on this same topic.  Everyone is biased to justify their choice.  Is private school better?  Yes, definitely.  Having gone to a "top" public school and a "top" private school myself, and having also sent my kids to a "top" public and private, I can say without hesitation that private school is hands down better in almost every way.  Is it worth it?  That depends on how important it is to you and what type of sacrifices you have to make to be able to afford it.  For our family, the financial stress was just too much so we moved to public.  It's not as good, we're not as happy with the school, but we're saving tons of money and have less financial stress.  It's working for now, but I could see us switching back to private in a few years.  [/quote]

Not definitely better, of course. These things can only be accurately discussed in the context of a specific child, a specific private and a specific public, and I think it's futile trying to generalize beyond that. Private school parents are often quite desperate to believe private is universally better because of the financial burden involved, but it's not possible to generalize.

I'm a K-12 private grad from a top private (not in DC) and I'm sending my kids to public. I genuinely believe that the public options available to us are better than the private options and I feel fortunate for that. Not everybody has reasonable public options. Not all kids do well in public or private. I've known kids who moved from private to public and flourished, and vice versa. If I lived somewhere else other than where I live, I might not have good public options, and I'd probably send my kids to private. These are enormously individual circumstances and a million messages on DCUM saying otherwise doesn't change that reality. [/quote]

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