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[quote=Anonymous]Almost no-one in my close in Bethesda neighborhood sends their kids to private. Both my kids went through ES, MS and now BCC together and they are all high achieving, although in diff. areas.

Varsity sports, AP, IB, theatre etc. They are at a diverse high school, which more accurately reflects the real world they will be graduating into, and I don't juts mean black and white diversity, and navigating a large high school has really built their confidence.

Now if my child was struggling I would happily consider sending them to private school, but I honestly think of private school kids as sheltered and kind of fragile. And I say this as someone who went to public school and ended up my high school career at a private. I loved it, it was so fun, prettiest campus ever, but yeah, the private school kids lived in a serious bubble. I went on to an Ivy and at least back then there were loads of public school kids and no sign that the private school kids were better prepared.

There is just no benefit to the motivated, high achieving student to got to private instead of a place like Whitman.

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