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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All these people who say they pay for private for reasons other than college outcome, can you please explain more? When I saw the OP’s post I knew that would be the standard reply (I’ve been reading this board for years and there are two consistent themes: quitting your job to stay home because that’s “the best decision for our family” and claiming that you pay for private not because of college “we are not paying to get into ivy”), so I’m curious why. I’m an immigrant so that might explain why this is confusing to me. [/quote]
DC is 2e - dyslexic and gifted. The local publics could support the dyslexia (although even that was luck of the draw on whether you got a teacher that understood LDs or just thought kids were lazy and needed to try harder) OR they could challenge the giftedness, but not both together. DC didn’t need a dyslexia-specific school (which again, often aren’t great at challenging a gifted child). A mainstream private school that offered appropriate accommodations with a rigorous education was perfect. And we’re not looking for Ivy admits for college (although DC has the stats to join the crapshoot lottery that is Ivy admissions if they wanted to). Top of the list is currently William & Mary and everyone would be thrilled with that outcome - or one of several other smaller publics and liberal arts schools on DC’s list. [/quote]

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