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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who admits to being jealous about all sorts of money things from travel to car to home renovations I can 1000 percent say private does not make the list. I have also found the teachers are better on balance in public, esp after learning a very average classmate of mine got a job teaching at sidwell with no prior experience. (Years ago) No doubt smaller class sizes, personal attention/coddling and better facilities come with private, and there’s the occasional bad teacher in public. I’m just one of those people who has different values including socioeconomic diversity, and feels my public is more than good enough to educated kids. And I’m not alone judging by all the Uber educated and wealthy families in our local public. [/quote]

All the Uber educated and wealthy families at your local public?  Thanks for the laugh.[/quote]

Reminds me of the joke about the person being given a tour of heaven who asked about the big curtained off area.  St Peter replied “Those are the Southern Baptists.  They don’t know that the rest of you are here.”

We’re a 2 PhD family of researchers with a fair amount of national accolades in our fields.  We still have happy hours with parents from our public, including the current president of a large national, frequently in the news national scientific association, a frequent CNN contributor who has been running a DC think tank since he stopped teaching at Harvard, a senior state department official, a senior IC person, and a much cited national journalist.

I’m sure the parents of private school kids are lovely, and I would never presume to make blanket statements about them.  [/quote]

Sounds like a small gathering of parents at our private.  Amazing number of CEOs, prominent scholars, national news channel anchors and [b]leading lawyers[/b]. [/quote]

I am "just" a lawyer.  Could you explain how one qualifies as a  "leading lawyer" to an uninformed layperson like yourself?   :roll:  [/quote]

Equity partners at DC law firms making 3 million + would qualify for that designation.  [/quote]

A B.S non-profit lawyer or one working for the VA would not.[/quote]

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