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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We made double that amount twenty years ago, also lived in NOVA, and it never occurred to us to send our smart kids (and they sound a lot like your smart kid) to private.  I’m sure your middle school and high schools are just fine, and it’ll do your kid some good to be exposed to different levels of intellectual ability, family and cultural backgrounds, and economic diversity.

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Uh, NOVA is quite different than 20 years ago. You have no idea how public schools are different now. And I say this as a product of FCPS schools.[/quote]

How are FCPS different now? My DC is in a private now and I’ve been thinking of pulling her out for our local elementary which is considered to be very good. We’re in Langley high school pyramid and Langley also very good. Everything I hear about the publics is good. I always imagined private for my kids because the people I knew from private school were just smarter — they were well rounded, they knew more about lots of subjects, they were better read, they are generally better writers, they are poised public speakers, and they present better. But now that we’re in private I find it to be a bunch of parents of mediocre achievement who have family money and belong to country clubs. My spouse and I are high achieving and place a high value on education and we couldn’t care less about a country club. I’m not finding it to be a great fit culturally. DC is still too young for me to know how the education stacks up. [/quote]

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