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[quote=Anonymous]We were at that point when we moved (one kid in 10th, one in 8th and one in 6th).  We chose to stick with public schools. make $1M, 500K is going towards retirement savings and TAXES.  I'm not inclined to spend $150K ($50K per kid) to send them to private HS when we live in a great district.  The incremental increases in learning would not be that much.  My kids were already all highly motivated and good students.  Instead I chose to spend on tutors for the one who needed it and a College counselor for 2 of the kids for the college process. No regrets with saving that $200K/kid for the HS years.  We go to a HS where 88% of kids go onto 4 year colleges, another 6% go to our excellent CCs and transfer to the state flagship,  over 50% graduate with a 3.75+ UW gpa (and there is no grad inflation, just smart kids with highly educated parents who value education and the kids know they are going to college from time they were toddlers).

Yes, it would have been nice to not have 30 kids in classes sometimes, but for 2 of my kids it was not an issues---they thrive in any environment.  And the other did just fine in HS as well. 
  But at the smaller privates, my kids would have missed out on band---a HS with only 400 kids simply cannot have the same quality band/orch/chorus program that one with 3K kids has.  And they would have been going to school at least a 45 min drive from where we lived---so nowhere near most of their friends from HS.  My kids wanted and deserved to be nearby friends. And the elite smaller privates do not always have as many course options as our large HS has.  We had almost every AP course imaginable, with great teachers.

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