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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools are not worth it. Don't buy in - your kids can get a completely fine education and get into great colleges from any public school. It's about the kid. The school does not matter. Teachers at private schools are just as bad and good as at public schools. Private schools in this area are so overpriced. I wish I had not sent mine to these ridiculously overpriced schools that were nothing special. Maybe they were a bit cleaner and had better facilities and smaller class sizes - but that's it. Definitely not worth the 50K/yr plus all the dumb donations and other costs of attendance.[/quote]

+1000

Signed, private school parent [/quote]

If you are sending your kid to school solely for college admissions results, sure. There are, however, many other valid reasons for choosing your child's school. One size does not fit all.[/quote]

Also, some people want better than “fine” for their kids. Mine would be absolutely “fine” in public school, but we wanted to give them a better experience than “fine”.[/quote]

The better experience is luck of what teachers your child gets, good fit of the school in terms of offerings, etc.  That can happen in public or private.[/quote]

I absolutely disagree. Teachers aside, you can pick and choose so much more if you decide to go private. We chose an Episcopalian single gender school with very strong academics, small class size and strong community spirit. Not sure I could have found that at my inbound DCPS. Perhaps where you live there are those kind of PS?[/quote]

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