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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having observed GDS as a step parent…

Save your money. Seriously. The public schools around here are great and would be even better if highly motivated academically focused kids like those at Maret, Sidwell, GDS etc attended them. Parents, instead of throwing wads and wads of cash at private schools, send your kid to a public school, volunteer there and put the money you'd save on tuition towards college or, gasp, give it to charity.

Not a single kid in my family went to private school and we all did fine (Princeton, Harvard, Penn, VPI and various law and med schools). WHY would you start paying $30K per year in grade school? Think if you saved that money for a down payment on a house for your kid or set up a fund or donated it to charity!

I guarantee if my step kid went to Wilson she would be doing exactly as well as she is doing now in college.[/quote]

1. I don't live in an area with good public schools (your response seems to imply everyone does).
2. You sound bitter that your spouse is paying for your step kid to go to private school.
3. Having gone to public school there are things a child receives at an IS they don't at a public school which is more than just the ability to read, write and do math. Good IS focus on the whole child, public schools don't.
4. Unless some the focus isn't just on going to Harvard. It's being adequately prepared for college and public schools are failing at that...I went to a top 20 undergrad and I have a profession degree so I know it can be don't me with a public school education. However, I also know the kids who came from IS at my undergrad where much better prepared and had an overall better four years than others.
5. This post isn't about whether IS are worth it -- I have already concluded they are - it's whether GDS is as good as its reputation. [/quote]

1. She doesn't sound bitter, she sounds balanced, which for DCUM is quite an anomaly.
2. I don't like your lists
3. You need to learn how to quote things, at the moment its not appearing correctly on screen. Press the Quote button and then scroll down to where the original post ends. Write after that.[/quote]

And I should care about what you like because???[/quote]

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