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[quote=Anonymous]One poster said that if you can afford $25k, you can afford private school tuition at a traditional private school or else get financial aid. The "top" private schools in the area are now charging $40,000, sometimes more when you include bus and lunch and other fees. You cannot easily get financial aid. Saving 10,000 a year is significant, esp for more than one kid.

Also, there are many kids in traditional private schools who are more into sports and arts. So if you have a STEM/academic kid and do not want to go to a large public school because of the size/politics, this might be a good choice. Public schools are not pushing 500+ per grade. They are getting as big as colleges.

Also, there are complaints about BASIS teachers. Public schools do have teacher issues as well. Some have serious problems and cannot be fired. What is worse, teacher turnover at BASIS or keeping teachers who are under performing in FCPS? I'm sure it will take a bit of time to have stability in teachers, and of course they can move on if they find a better job with a higher salary, esp. if they are young. This will happen. I have also seen under performing teachers at private schools who are hard to fire for other reasons. BASIS is looking at how the kids perform on the final exams and APs. They compare it to their other schools, so if a teacher is well liked, but not producing results, they will be moved out. In private schools, it is very hard to assess teacher performance. And who wants to fire a well liked teacher who is a coach, even if the kids in his class are only kind of learning the material.[/quote]

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