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We chose to buy into an expensive, lovely, neighborhood with excellent public schools, initially because our oldest has special needs that could be better met in that cluster. And since it worked out great for our oldest, we think it's also good for our youngest, who is smart and capable.

And it means more money for undergrad, grad, downpayments on houses, etc.[/quote]

We chose to buy into a moderately priced, lovely, close knit neighborhood with MEH public schools because how convenient and lovely the house and neighborhoods was. My kid was an infant then and I did not care about the schools (since I am an immigrant).  ES experience  was very good and by the time my kids were in 3rd grade they were already very advanced. Both my kids are green-shirted because they were reading before they started school and missed the cutoff by a few days.   They ended up going in the public magnet schools.  We saved money on our house, money on private K-12 schools, money for undergrad because of $$$ merit aid. So we have money for college, grad school, car, wedding, down-payment for house etc. [/quote]

Would your calculus change at all if money were not a consideration? Ie ability to give all you listed were not impacted by paying K-12 private tuition.[/quote]

Good question. Our calculus would not change because of our reality.

We are non-White, non-Christian, ORM first gen immigrants.  Private schools did not give us the curriculum that was as  rigorous than magnets and whatever else they were selling (influence, prestige, good table manners)  did not appeal to us because we are not White or well connected for college admissions.

Our HHI is around 400K. I am SAHM.  Money for education is not an issue for us because we (DH and I) are very qualified and we are successful here because of our education.  By the time my kids were school aged, we did have the  money to buy in a good school pyramid, or pay for private schools.  We continued living where we were living because of our expat support system was well established here and parents of our kids magnet  cohort were close by. I had forged friendships with them for years and our kids collaborated on many EC projects.

Our first choice was MCPS magnet schools because it was closest to the basic universal education students from our home country get. Magnets remained the best education (years before magnet schools were diluted) we could hope for our kids.  '

If not magnet, then our next choice was to buy a house in W pyramid because it was better for us to spend money on a house than on private school tuition for whatever number of years my kids needed schools. I have two kids. K-12 is 13 yrs.  Times 100K.  It made sense to rather own real estate.

Private was not appealing academically, and then we also knew that  college admissions were not merit-based, so private schools made zero sense. There was no benefit of going to a private school, even if they would have given us free tuition.

As some one who is an immigrant, we would like to give money to our children because there is no generational wealth for us.  Therefore, generational wealth has to be earned and bestowed to our children by us. We are careful and very strategic about their education and our money. Unless my kids earn a lot of money, they will probably remain UMC like us.   [/quote]

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