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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We moved to McLean from Alexandria for their good public schools. It feels like everyone in our neighborhood sends their kids to private. It seems like the families who can afford private sent their kids to private during the pandemic if they weren’t already in private. We have a seven figure income and can easily afford private tuition.

Would you send your kid to private if you could easily afford it?[/quote]

Yes, I would. We don't have a seven figure income, but we still make sacrifices to send our children to private school. We've experienced both FCPS and private school, and the difference is night and day. Education is an important value in our family. It seems to go without saying that people would send their children to "the best" university that they can, but they often overlook the critical younger years where education and social development are even more important.

For the record, both my wife and I went to public school and the thought of sending my children to private school never occurred to me until failure after failure with FCPS drove us away. We can never go back.[/quote]

Op here. Dh and I are also public school kids. We originally liked and wanted our children to go to school with kids like us when we were younger. They are doing well, get good grades, have been in the AAP program so have a solid peer group of smart UMC students and happy. That is why we have stayed in public. My kids are well liked and well behaved. I think they would do well in any environment.

If we didn’t have the youngest who started in preschool and friends all went to private, I probably would not feel as guilty since older kids have always been in public. [/quote]

So I’m confused, your kids friends at UMC and at public, but I thought you said everyone went private?[/quote]

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