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Good intro and I look forward to the rest of the series. But in the end, Anon's advice is really the best: there's no one option that's perfect for everyone. You just have to wait until you're actually a parent before deciding. In my particular case, I'm lucky enough to live in boundary to one of those quality WOTP elementary schools, but I'm unsure about middle school. But that's a decision that is over a decade away. A lot can change in ten years.

And when that day comes, we'll just have to decide what's best and do what we need to accomplish that.

On some level I feel like a lot of the anxiety over schools (particularly among those with a choice) is driven not because the parents are unsure of their decision, but because they're worried about what others think if that decision. When you have people say that not in a million years they'd see their kid to DCPS, that sort of fosters that anxiety. Best advice is to just ignore what others say, because they're only justifying their own choices. Obviously you can't completely ignore other opinions, but if you try to live up to them, you end up believing that your child's only hope is to go to Saint Alban's. Children of parents like that usually have lots of issues...

by TM on Jul 17, 2012 1:21 pm • link • report