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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I want my kids to learn to love learning. I don't want them to go to an Ivy or other crazy notions that are immagined about why I send my kids to a private school.

I just don't want my kids to hate school.[/quote]

What do you think parents of children in public school want? And why don't you think what you describe is possible there? I only ask because I want to be sure people investigate their own specific local school to decide whether it offers these things, rather than assume all public schools are alike.[/quote]

Well, I did investigate my local school. Here is what I learned that stopped me cold: one in three children in our neighborhood school has a family member currently incarcerated. 33% of the children required IEP's and less than 30% were able to read and write at grade level. The play ground is regularly strewn w/used condoms and broken liquor bottles. There was no art on the walls.

This sent me to calling Janey. Murch, and Horace Mann to ask their boundaries. They refused to provide same. Somewhere down the line I got the info and spent every weekend for nearly a year driving through those neighborhoods ( I had drawn the borders on a map) looking for apartment buildings that I could possibly afford.

DC was given numbers 98 and 83 respectively in the Cap City and EL Haines Lotteries. DC did not get in at Janey, HM or Murch as out of bounds. Eventually he was taken off a wait list at a wonderful private school and is very happy there.

That is how I came to " choose private".[/quote]

I would've moved to Arlington.  How were you able to afford private school if you couldn't afford to move?[/quote]

I did not say that I couldn't afford to move. I said that I tried to find an apartment in DC Ward 3 where the public schools schools are decent ( rather than a house) because the rare 2 bedrm apartments in Ward 3 rent for about 2,000 a month and I could afford that. I could not afford to buy in Ward 3 ( at 1.5- 4 million a house) with 20% down required for a jumbo loan since 2008.

In  the end I did not have to move to MOCO or FFX and go public because DC got into private. I worked 60-70 hrs a week to pay 2,000 a month of the 3,000 a month tuition. ( I am a single parent). Not sure why DC was accepted when I could not pay full tuition. Perhaps it was DC's IQ of 145 that opened the door. I am extremely grateful for all the FA DC gets ( 10,000 a year is a lot of aid) to a single parent making 95K a year. I really didn't mind working two jobs and handing over all the money I earned. As far as I'm concerned it is the most important thing I have ever worked for.[/quote]

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