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[quote=Anonymous]The more threads like this I read, the more I think it's such a crap shoot in terms of what your elementary school offers, whether public or private.

One comment I have is to actually talk to parents of older kids at your elementary before drawing too many conclusions. I felt just like this when my kid was in PK (which in our district is at the public school) and K, but then starting in 1st our school offers a much better after care program, and I've also discovered a lot of activities starts at 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th grade, depending on the activity. So actually our school offers a lot of program, most of it organized by the school, in a formal way through the PTA, or by longtime teachers. But this was sort of invisible to us as ECE parents because they offer very little for that age group.

I also know people who have kids in private who complain about having to supplement on top of pay private school fees, and sometimes complain about limited programming for elementary depending on the size of the school. Some people wind up at tiny private elementaries because when they enrolled their 5 year old in school, a very small school with small classes sounded great. But when you have a 3rd grader and you have to pay separately for them to participate in really basic activities like chorus, or transport them to another campus for Girls on the Run or Girlscouts (that a larger school might just host on campus because they have the critical mass to run it through the school), that small environment is less appealing.

It also comes down to how many kids you have and what your personal family logistics are with things like commute and bandwidth to drive your kid to after school activities. Everyone is different. I think here are pluses and minuses to most schools, and also that some schools will work great for one family and then be a disaster for another and it's about fit more than quality, once you are looking at schools above a certain threshold for academic quality.[/quote]

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