If you plan on investing in private school at some point...
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Anonymous
| Have you chosen to invest in elementary, middle or high school? In other words, the younger or older years? |
Anonymous
| Invest? |
Anonymous
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My initial plan was high school because our public high school option was lacking.
Unfortunately our public elementary school option ended up being a poor fit for my oldest. The private school ended up being such a wonderful fit for him we started our younger child in the same private. Our oldest is in high school and won't be returning to public school. The younger might go to public middle school. Our plan was to keep him in private but he's interested in trying out public. We intend for him to go to private high school regardless of what happens with middle school. |
Anonymous
| Will probably send DD for middle school. After we see if it is an improvement, and how much it hurts financially, we will decide whether to return to public for high school. But for middle school, DD needs small classes and a more motivated peer group than we are likely to find in our local public MS. |
Anonymous
| Definitely planning for high school, and may look at it sooner depending on how our charter does in upcoming years. |
Anonymous
| Our government ES is good so they go there. Our MS is suspect so we may got private then back to government schools for HS.....i think. |
Anonymous
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K-8. I felt those were the most formative years where's all class size truly matters (early k-2 grades).
The magnitude of funding for public high schools provides so many more diverse opportunities, as well. So I think my child would get a better education at a public. However, if he somehow needs to stay private, for social reasons, etc. we could do a Catholic high school like Good Counsel. |
Anonymous
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My son would have done much better in private MS and HS. We just didn't have the money. He's in private college now (merit scholarship). He loves the small setting. |
Anonymous
| We started out in public elementary with the intention of moving them to private in middle school and high school. In the end, we ended up pulling them to private in early elementary for many reasons and hope to continue at the same school through 12th grade. |
Anonymous
| Our kids are in public elementary school. We plan on moving them to private for middle school. It is such a difficult age and peers can become more influential than parents at that age. We supplement their education at home now, which is easy to do at this age, to make sure they are getting quality math and writing instruction. So we aren't worried about elementary school. Both my husband and I hated our large, public middle schools (in different cities), and we both vowed we would never send our kids to a large, public middle school long before we meet each other. |
Anonymous
| Charter... we can't afford private but having had DC in charters since 3rd we see that they operate much more like the private sector, very results-oriented, very focused on the model, very focused on customer satisfaction, and very focused on survival and success - things that public schools totally do not understand. Public schools have always been of the mindset that all they need to do is throw open their doors and they are then entitled to the students, no matter how badly the environment, curriculum and results suck. |
Anonymous
| We went private in MS for both our kids. We don't regret it. But if it had been a financial strain, we wouldn't have. |
Anonymous
| We just calculated that we have spent about $580k on private education and college for one kid. That doesn't include annual giving and capital campaigns, which would add another $50k to that. Honestly, looking back, I am not sure it was totally worth it, although it seemed to be at the time. |
Anonymous
Right up there with items from the Franklin Mint. |
Anonymous
| Younger years matter most to me. So fragile. |