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I am that poster and my kids have been in private school since PK. My older DS is now in HS so we have already spent quite a bit of tuition money. In our experience, when comparing my friend's kids in ES and MS, the curriculum in private school was just not as rigorous. We don't send our kids to private school because we want the hardest curriculum. We like the fact that they have sports, PE every day, art, science and music. We also like the fact they develop strong relationships with teacher's which is harder to do in a larger class. If you look at where kids get into college from the Whitman/Wootton/Churchill clusters you will see that they do very well.

Yes there are a lot of bright kids in private school but there are also other kids such as alumni, siblings or large donors who are not the top of the IQ chain.

My point was if the OP is looking at private school based a challenging curriculum only, it may be better to do public.

I don't appreciate the pyschoanalyzation. I just have seen many people come in and be disappointed because their expectations about private school vs public school were not met.[/quote]

I agree with much of what you say, but can you hint about which schools you were in?[/quote]

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