if you get into one of the good charters I would seriously consider that as a route. we are one of the parents who did transfer our child to private in 3rd, though that wasn't our original plan. The transition wasn't horrible, but it also was not stress-free for either ourselves (do we just move? do we fork over all that money for private?) or our child (she is not the greatest dealing with big change.
all school have their issues, I guess you just need to decide which ones you can live with and which really concern you. even with all the $ spent we feel the issues at the new school are easier for us to take.
we do have pangs of liberal guilt sometimes. (we tried for two charters but didn't get picked in the lottery)
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