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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Average students do best in a private school setting. 
Strong and motivated students do well in both settings and shine in public schools.

If you have the resources, enroll your average student in a good school (St Patrick, Field). Leave aside StAlbans/NCS, Sidwell, GDS. [/quote]

Sometimes when you take a kid who seems average in a large public school with big classes, and move them to a private with smaller class sizes and the greater attention and more intense competition (basically what you are paying for in private) that average kids turns out to not be so average at all.  This is true for our son who turned out to be really smart and is now at STA.

Boys who are well behaved and smart will often just coast in a good public because they can - its too big for teachers to bother with pushing and motivating a kid who is nice, getting Bs and has no behavioral problems.  Resources are limited in publics regardless of how good they are.  In privates, there are lots more resources per kid and a smart kid is not gong to be allowed to just coast on minimal effort makings Bs because he is nice and well behaved.

I think your son sounds like the exact kind of kid that private school would benefit.[/quote]

I agree with 90 percent of what you said above, but not the part about privates having more intense competition. The public schools are quite competitive.  At private, you are able to play sports and usually not worry about getting cut from a team.  Similarly, there are fewer kids auditioning for parts in the musical, etc.  There are tons of smart and highly motivated kids in public.  Our son is more average, and he likes that private is less competitive (but he does miss going to a big school).  Parents seem to like small schools, but kids often like big schools, in my experience.[/quote]

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