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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point many seem to miss is that for most posting to this (DC oriented) board, public school is not a realistic option.  When you choose to live in the District of Columbia you are basically committing to sending your children to private school – that’s a big reason why schools located in NW receive so many applications.  Even schools not in DC attract DC students, but with traffic congestion and urbanization of the suburbs even schools in the near suburbs are not the viable option they were back in the day.  The result is the frenzied interest in schools that are commutable from Georgetown that you see reflected on this board.

MD residents, on the other hand, are perceived as having a choice – because the public schools are reputed to be among the best in the country.  While choosing between GDS and Wilson is a no brainer regardless of cost, choosing between Holton and Whitman is not so easy in these economic times.  It is not irrational for a parent faced with that choice to choose free education even if they think there might be some benefit to private education.   Conversely, it is not irrational for a parent with the means to do so to invest significant amounts in their child’s education for even a slight benefit.  We shouldn’t be bothered by the choices others make.
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In Montgomery County, there is no demand for coed private high schools.  Parents who send their children to private schools do so because they believe there is an advantage to single gender education.   The coed schools in DC (Sidwell, Maret, GTown Day) fill and need that exists in DC.  [/quote]

I think you have to separate the Catholic schools from secular schools when discussing why parents opt out of the public schools.  In DC it is obvious that public schools are not an option.  As you note, single gender is a big factor in places (such as Mont. Co) where public schools are an option.  The roots of the Catholic school system are different.  The Catholic school system flourished in response to rabid anti-Catholicism at certain times in U.S. history (Civil War era and post WWI/Al Smith era, for example).  While Catholics have assimilated there are still vestiges of rabid anti-Catholicism in America (some say that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice),  Some Catholics fear that were are in the early stages of another wave of anti-Catholicism and this is surely a factor behind some of the support of Catholic education.
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