Anonymous wrote:There's no way in h@ll I would put one of 3 kids in private - it's all or nothing (unless there is a SN situation), or you are building resentment among siblings.

We had one in a $60k school at $340HHI and it was a stretch

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Anonymous wrote:We have a similar income in DC proper and sent our 3 kids to private for high school only. The expectations were a giant step up from DCPS. 2 of the 3 are now at Ivies and doing incredibly well. Third is still in high school. It was (and is for one more year for the youngest) a lot of money but we don't regret paying it. We're not people who want a lot of fancy things and we have no desire to retire early so we I don't look back and think "wow, I wish I could have spent that money in a different way." I'm at peace at having spent it on education.

Very similar to us. It might be cultural but people boasting how they retired early because they were refused to spend much on education jars with me. I get it if you really hate your job or are in a very unstable industry. But not if you sacrifice education for the sake of quitting work and doing not much.

Ummm sending your kid to any one of the very very good public schools around her is not “sacrificing education.”

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Anonymous wrote:Ignore most of these posts, OP.

You have got a very bitter contingency of people who can't afford private school here desperately feeling the need to label it as "stupid." It isn't, there are many reasons to send kids to private if you can afford it. Which you can.

This is such a typical response. And it’s simply not true. I was a Biglaw partner making just shy of 7 figures two decades ago when we decided not to put our kids in private. Thanks in large part to that decision, I was able to retire in my early 50s with plenty of money while still in a position to help our kids out in much more practical ways — large down payments for houses, etc. Kids all went to public schools all the way through college (except for one who got a large merit award) and all are now doing just fine in the DMV, doing the same jobs and making the same money and living the same lives in the same neighborhoods as their private school friends and classmates. Of course, none of them is in Biglaw like I was, but that’s a blessing!

Okay, but when you were in biglaw and using public schools, what neighborhood did you live in? Let’s not get carried away with the value of Janney when you need a fortune to go there in the first place. Private school is just another flavor of the same game.

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Anonymous wrote:We have a similar income in DC proper and sent our 3 kids to private for high school only. The expectations were a giant step up from DCPS. 2 of the 3 are now at Ivies and doing incredibly well. Third is still in high school. It was (and is for one more year for the youngest) a lot of money but we don't regret paying it. We're not people who want a lot of fancy things and we have no desire to retire early so we I don't look back and think "wow, I wish I could have spent that money in a different way." I'm at peace at having spent it on education.

Very similar to us. It might be cultural but people boasting how they retired early because they were refused to spend much on education jars with me. I get it if you really hate your job or are in a very unstable industry. But not if you sacrifice education for the sake of quitting work and doing not much.

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Anonymous wrote:Ignore most of these posts, OP.

You have got a very bitter contingency of people who can't afford private school here desperately feeling the need to label it as "stupid." It isn't, there are many reasons to send kids to private if you can afford it. Which you can.

This is such a typical response. And it’s simply not true. I was a Biglaw partner making just shy of 7 figures two decades ago when we decided not to put our kids in private. Thanks in large part to that decision, I was able to retire in my early 50s with plenty of money while still in a position to help our kids out in much more practical ways — large down payments for houses, etc. Kids all went to public schools all the way through college (except for one who got a large merit award) and all are now doing just fine in the DMV, doing the same jobs and making the same money and living the same lives in the same neighborhoods as their private school friends and classmates. Of course, none of them is in Biglaw like I was, but that’s a blessing!

Okay, but when you were in biglaw and using public schools, what neighborhood did you live in? Let’s not get carried away with the value of Janney when you need a fortune to go there in the first place. Private school is just another flavor of the same game.