You pay for the other students and for their families. At public schools, you pay in property tax and mortgage. In private schools, you pay tuition. In the Was

You pay for the other students and for their families. At public schools, you pay in property tax and mortgage. In private schools, you pay tuition. In the Washington, DC, area, there are very good private schools. I doubt that any of them are better than Wootton or Churchill in Montgomery County, Maryland, or such magnet programs as Thomas Jefferson in Fairfax County.