Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is worth it to me for my child. He did fine in public ES but our local MS, while highly regarded, is HUGE. 3 grades with appr. 1100-1200 students. My son would be lost there. I'd rather spend the money and get some FA to send him to a smaller private school where the teachers know him and won't let him coast along. My neighbor teaches in another large public MS and she has something like 130 students each day. She said with classes so large and so many kids with IEPs and 504s that it is hard to get to know the students. She knows the students by where they sit in class and which period she has them. I think it's worth $8,000 per year for my son to go to private school where his teacher knows him, not where he sits and which period he is in.
If it were only $8K, then sure.
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