Sidwell alum. MoCo public (Churchill cluster). Only one person I know from Sidwell is going there. It's a very different place now.

^^ No faith in DCI?

Not DC private but NYC private school alums. Our kid goes to YY. We really want DS to learn Mandarin. Will go private in DC for middle school and return to NYC for high school - either NYC private or Stuy or NE boarding school.

Went to Maret, very happy w our child's JKLM experience. Planning to send to Deal too.

Sidwell alum here. Our kids go to K-8 independent. We live in DC.

13 years of Sidwell wasn't on the table, but neither was public.

Graduated from GDS. Kids are going to a charter. Even if we could afford it (which we can't AT ALL), I wouldn't want to send my kids to a school with so little economic diversity.

Kids in public school. I had a good experience in a local private back in the day, but can't justify the expense especially when I factor in what we bring to the table as parents. Now if my kids had specific needs, it might be a different story.

Public is working for us.

Sidwell alum with child in MCPS high school. We could certainly pay private school tuition but felt that our public school was a better fit for our child.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a Sidwell alum with kids at Yu Ying (not a financial decision -- they wanted immersion and can support Chinese at home better than Spanish or French; kids probably will go private for MS and HS.)

I'm struggling to understand why you would teach Chinese? Seems like a waste. Spanish, I get... But, Chinese? I guess any language is better than nothing, but Spanish probably has more utility.

Because Spanish is an easy language to learn. You can learn it pretty quickly in a few years. Chinese, is hard (and with a different alphabet more so). If you are interested in languages, it makes more sense.

Hmmm....
Most widely spoken language in the world.
National language of an emerging world power.
Significant community language in the US, and growing faster than Spanish.

Anonymous wrote:I know a Sidwell alum with kids at Yu Ying (not a financial decision -- they wanted immersion and can support Chinese at home better than Spanish or French; kids probably will go private for MS and HS.)

I'm struggling to understand why you would teach Chinese? Seems like a waste. Spanish, I get... But, Chinese? I guess any language is better than nothing, but Spanish probably has more utility.

My sibling and I are STA/NCS. We have kids in Arlington public schools and a DC charter school.

I know a Sidwell alum with kids at Yu Ying (not a financial decision -- they wanted immersion and can support Chinese at home better than Spanish or French; kids probably will go private for MS and HS.)

Most world bank kids we know are in public (md and va, but some in dc also). Their package for headquarters appointments doesn't include tuition any more.

When I graduated from one of the top privates in DC lo these many years ago, I think tuition was about $7k-now the top tier privates run almost $40k. As a classmate said the me, you could area regular job and no world bank tuition remission payback, and still send a kid or two to privates when we were kids, but nowadays, that it impossible. Are the former private school alums in DC doing he same for their offspring, and what are other alums of Schools like Sidwell, NCS/STA, Maret, GDS, Holton/Landon etc doing if not private?