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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having observed GDS as a step parent…

Save your money. Seriously. The public schools around here are great and would be even better if highly motivated academically focused kids like those at Maret, Sidwell, GDS etc attended them. Parents, instead of throwing wads and wads of cash at private schools, send your kid to a public school, volunteer there and put the money you'd save on tuition towards college or, gasp, give it to charity.

Not a single kid in my family went to private school and we all did fine (Princeton, Harvard, Penn, VPI and various law and med schools). WHY would you start paying $30K per year in grade school? [b]Think if you saved that money for a down payment on a house for your kid [/b]or set up a fund or donated it to charity!

I guarantee if my step kid went to Wilson she would be doing exactly as well as she is doing now in college.[/quote]

Well, your values are not everyone's, thankfully. If you think I would "give" my child money for a house, you're out of your mind. I am giving my child an opportunity to make his life what he can. That is why I am spending now, on his education. If you're planning to buy you children houses (at the age of what, 30?), will that be to get them out of your basement?[/quote]

+1. My responsibility is providing them with a good education, not a fancy wedding, a house or a trust fund for that matter...and donate it to charity? Well that's noble, but providing for my child certainly takes priority over donating money to a charity. [/quote]

Sure you have every right to prioritize your children over charity. But if you can send your child to a good public school why would you spend 30k+ per year on a private school? Almost half a million dollars? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. One of my step sons went to GDS and my other step kids went to Wilson - all of them are doing equally well in school (two in college one still in HS).[/quote]

Unfortunately, I don't live in an area with good public schools. Moving to an area with good schools is not an option at the moment. Also, I only have my own experiences to compare it to and my public school education sucked in comparison to IS. If I lived in an area that had excellent public schools I might consider public. However, when comparing those who went to IS and those who went to public school at my undergrad typically those from IS where much better prepared to do well. They weren't plagued with the learning curve that many of us who went to public school had to deal because of a lack of resources and exposure. I don't live in upper NW, Montgomery County or NoVa. Many of us are left with no choice but to pursue IS if we want our kids to get a good education...I fall in that category. [/quote]

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