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[quote=Anonymous]We were in a top public and switched to private in elementary because the classes were large and our child was not being challenged. The smaller class sizes helped and the art and music instruction were substantially better, plus there was more accountability, personalized attention, increased focus on social-emotional growth and increased time spent outdoors in the younger years. I am a less stressed parent because on the rare occasions I see or hear something I have questions about, the faculty or admin engages in a professional, timely, and balanced fashion. We also don't feel the need to run around and do tons of extracurriculars because the curriculum is good and afterschool options largely sufficient. The aftercare was also better than what we experienced in public school.

Now in middle school, the confidence and continued focus on social-emotional growth seems to be paying off as my child is focused on
learning, enjoys being challenged and is not stressed by the workload or grades, even though she is a top student. She has self-discipline and willingly stays at school on days she does not have practices to do her homework and has several friends who do so as well.

I am certain she would have been fine in public school but I believe our family all would have been more stressed, had to advocate more often to get what DD needs, and would be supplementing more than we have to make it work. fwiw, that is largely our friends' experience who have remained in public school.[/quote]

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