Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved to McLean from Alexandria for their good public schools. It feels like everyone in our neighborhood sends their kids to private. It seems like the families who can afford private sent their kids to private during the pandemic if they weren’t already in private. We have a seven figure income and can easily afford private tuition.

Would you send your kid to private if you could easily afford it?

Yes, I would. We don't have a seven figure income, but we still make sacrifices to send our children to private school. We've experienced both FCPS and private school, and the difference is night and day. Education is an important value in our family. It seems to go without saying that people would send their children to "the best" university that they can, but they often overlook the critical younger years where education and social development are even more important.

For the record, both my wife and I went to public school and the thought of sending my children to private school never occurred to me until failure after failure with FCPS drove us away. We can never go back.

Anonymous wrote:We moved to McLean from Alexandria for their good public schools. It feels like everyone in our neighborhood sends their kids to private. It seems like the families who can afford private sent their kids to private during the pandemic if they weren’t already in private. We have a seven figure income and can easily afford private tuition.

Would you send your kid to private if you could easily afford it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you found out the hard way that TONS of families in McLean send their kids to private school.

FWIW, we send one kid to public and one to private but we only send the one to private because he was not thriving in public. My default is public schools however I'm kind of glad we're almost done with the craziness that is now FCPS (our oldest is a rising senior). There is so much divisiveness now and so many people are trashing the teachers. I hate the current environment.

We moved to McLean with a preschool aged child and two kids in elementary. The vast majority of all our neighbors and kids from our preschool go private. Then at our elementary school, I noticed many of the public school students switched to private in 3rd and 7th grade. That does not include the kids who switched because of covid and did not come back.

The students who are left seem like those who can’t afford private school tuition.

I do have access to the Langley senior college admissions and they are fantastic this year. I don’t necessarily think my kids would get into a better college frlm a private school. I feel like the actual education would be better.

Anonymous wrote:No, they have a better college admissions chance in public school, plus it gives me more than a decade more for compounding interest to work on my investments before I need to pay for college.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For most kids, yes, I would pay for private for high school if you can find a good fit.

I would not do twelve years of private because those kids are usually completely out of touch with the world most people live in.

-Big three grad who went to public and private, whose kids are on public but we can’t afford it. Felt fine with public till high school and now I wish I could give my kids the private high school education I had.

If your Big 3 education was so awesome, how come it didn't position you to be able to pay for your own kids to go private?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved to McLean from Alexandria for their good public schools. It feels like everyone in our neighborhood sends their kids to private. It seems like the families who can afford private sent their kids to private during the pandemic if they weren’t already in private. We have a seven figure income and can easily afford private tuition.

Would you send your kid to private if you could easily afford it?

OMG just stop. My income is higher than yours I raised 6 kids that went to schools like MIT & Yale from public. We did both so I have samples at both.

No private school is not better than public for every kid.

Op every kid is different.

What type of private school? Religious? LOL no.

Stop bashing your local public you want to waste your money go ahead. If you want to go private have a better reason because the one you came up with is absurd.

Anonymous wrote:For most kids, yes, I would pay for private for high school if you can find a good fit.

I would not do twelve years of private because those kids are usually completely out of touch with the world most people live in.

-Big three grad who went to public and private, whose kids are on public but we can’t afford it. Felt fine with public till high school and now I wish I could give my kids the private high school education I had.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved to McLean from Alexandria for their good public schools. It feels like everyone in our neighborhood sends their kids to private. It seems like the families who can afford private sent their kids to private during the pandemic if they weren’t already in private. We have a seven figure income and can easily afford private tuition.

Would you send your kid to private if you could easily afford it?

OMG just stop. My income is higher than yours I raised 6 kids that went to schools like MIT & Yale from public. We did both so I have samples at both.

No private school is not better than public for every kid.

Op every kid is different.

What type of private school? Religious? LOL no.

Stop bashing your local public you want to waste your money go ahead. If you want to go private have a better reason because the one you came up with is absurd.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you found out the hard way that TONS of families in McLean send their kids to private school.

FWIW, we send one kid to public and one to private but we only send the one to private because he was not thriving in public. My default is public schools however I'm kind of glad we're almost done with the craziness that is now FCPS (our oldest is a rising senior). There is so much divisiveness now and so many people are trashing the teachers. I hate the current environment.

Anonymous wrote:We moved to McLean from Alexandria for their good public schools. It feels like everyone in our neighborhood sends their kids to private. It seems like the families who can afford private sent their kids to private during the pandemic if they weren’t already in private. We have a seven figure income and can easily afford private tuition.

Would you send your kid to private if you could easily afford it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved to McLean from Alexandria for their good public schools. It feels like everyone in our neighborhood sends their kids to private. It seems like the families who can afford private sent their kids to private during the pandemic if they weren’t already in private. We have a seven figure income and can easily afford private tuition.

Would you send your kid to private if you could easily afford it?

OMG just stop. My income is higher than yours I raised 6 kids that went to schools like MIT & Yale from public. We did both so I have samples at both.

No private school is not better than public for every kid.

Op every kid is different.

What type of private school? Religious? LOL no.

Stop bashing your local public you want to waste your money go ahead. If you want to go private have a better reason because the one you came up with is absurd.

Anonymous wrote:No, they have a better college admissions chance in public school, plus it gives me more than a decade more for compounding interest to work on my investments before I need to pay for college.