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You mean Brent Elementary, the in-boundary public school several blocks north?  This school is certainly still a little "worse" than CHDS academically, but unless you have piles of cash, your little kid might actually get a better education if you send him/her to Brent and use the money you're saving to pay for enrichment.

In our case, paying for CHDS would have meant giving up our Chinese-speaking au pair, making it difficult to raise our daughter bilingual (my husband only speaks Chinese to her, as does the au pair), month-long annual trips to Hong Kong to visit family and work on her Chinese, the Johns Hopkins CTY camps in Alexandria (where she focuses on math), and probably music lessons.

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You clearly live in a different income bracket than I do -- no au pair, no month-long vacations to Asia, and you live in-boundary for Brent, e.g., arguably the most affluent section of the Hill.

For some of us who live on Capitol Hill but are in-boundary for other elementary schools, the calculation looks very different, even at lower income levels.  Fortunately I bought my house before the 2000s run-up in property values, so CHDS tuition is manageable (if barely) with my modest mortgage.  If I lived in-boundary for Brent, my child would probably go there -- but CHDS has been a great choice, a lovely community, and a good foundation for a love of learning.[/quote]

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