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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy OP. If you can afford private -- go private. If you can't ...go public. What is so hard about that. If you can't afford it, don't fret over it...that's not going to help your child.[/quote]

Not the OP but another family struggling with this. We earn 500k-1mill and we are still undecided. I don't necessarily think all private schools are better just because they are private. DH specifically does not want our kids to only be around wealthy kids.[/quote]

Most public school boundaries in MCPS cluster wealth so I am curious how your kids wouldn't be going to public school with other wealthy kids if you are living somewhere with the best public schools that 500k-1 mil could afford.  I do agree though that private isn't better because it is private.  [/quote]

We live in a wealthy MoCo neighborhood.  The wealthiest people still opt for private.  Yes, you have a lot of wealth at MCPS schools, but it's certainly not like the wealth you see at privates.[/quote]

Our experience has been different.  Much more wealth at our MoCo public than at our private school.  Public certain has a wider range of income that private school, but in our neighborhood, where everyone probably could afford private school, about 1/2-2/3rds go to public.  We sent one to each and it had nothing to do with money.[/quote]

You can buy a $900k to $1M house in the Whitman and BCC school districts on a household income if $250k -- we know, we looked into this recently. But you can't send two kids to private for $75k/year on the same income, or at least go private and still save for college and retirement. So yes, you will find many families in west MoCo school districts who are doing well and bought into the school districts, but who fall below the $350k income that DCUM thinks you need to afford private school.[/quote]

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