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[quote=Anonymous]We were in your exact position two years ago.  DS was in K at the school where he had gone to preschool and they go through 6th.  
Like you, we were happy with his private school and are confident he would have had a great education there.  And like you, we have a younger child.  Tuition times two was daunting, but doable.
But we wouldn't have had extra money for vacations, expensive extracurriculars, etc.
So we finally took a tour of our local public school, and were really impressed, so decided to at least give it a try.
Figured that we weren't going anywhere, we'd watch closely, and if we needed to pull him and put him back in his private, than that's what we'd do.

We are *SO* happy we switched.  We love his public school far more than his private.  It's not just "good enough and free" I feel like it's truly a better school (and we really did like his private and younger DD is still there, so it's not like we were in a bad school to start with.)  
He's thriving and happy.  The reading and writing curriculum is fantastic, his art class is absolutely amazing (they have a seriously great art teacher), they've done a ton of cool science projects, etc. etc.  I will say that in our district the math differentiation doesn't start until 3rd grade, so he hasn't really been challenged at all in math so far, but he's had plenty of academic challenges in the rest of the school day, so I'm not too worried about that.

I highly suggest you give it a try.  You can always go back to the private if it's just not working.[/quote]

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