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[quote=Anonymous]Personally, I would never pay $40K a year for something I could get for free. In my mind that is just crazy and is throwing money away.

Do you really, really think that some private school will educate your kids so much better--$40K better--than a perfectly good public school like Murch? The kids are not learning something esoteric like nuclear physics. Learning to read and write and do math, assuming you come from an educated family that is providing all the kinds of at-home support that educated families do, is pretty much the same everywhere. What would, exactly, they be getting for that $40K?

If you can afford to move in-bounds to a decent NW public school, do that and save your money for retirement. Or give it away. Or use the money to give your kids highly, enriching summer experiences. Adding up year after year, that is a shitload of money.

I am a highly educated person and I have my kids in a decent, free, public charter school here in DC. We go play in Beauvoir's lovely playground on the weekends. For free. I am saving money for my kids' college educations and my retirement.
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