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I'm still a few years away from thinking about kids (though both me and my fiancee are 30, so no doubt she'll start pointing at her watch in a year or two), but as things currently stand I'd have a hard time justifying raising our kids in DC given the school options we'd have in MoCo or Virginia.

Until you have kids, you really have no idea what you'll look for in a school. The near suburb schools have issues of their own. Some are severly overcrowded despite their higher test scores, and those higher test scores often result from teaching to the test (in addition to kids with more resources to help them succeed).

There are good DCPS and charter options, but you need to do your homework and be prepared to get involved (pretty much a given for suburban public schools too). Middle school is the most persistent concern for DC parents with the means to move or opt into private school, but for parents without kids or with kids yet to even reach early childhood education (let alone actually have kids in elementary), that's an awful long horizon and things do change. The charter landscape is also rapidly evolving, and some of them are very good.

by anon on Jul 17, 2012 1:04 pm • link • report

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