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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's it expensive to send your child to an independent private school? Yes, of course it is. For some people, money is no object. For those of us for whom money is something we need to consider, we've made life choices that allow us to send our kids to private. We opted to send them to public school for elementary and private for Middle and High School. We do not go on expensive vacations. We live modestly (old cars, small house).  We believe their day-to-day experience is vastly superior to what they would receive at their zoned public and so,yes, it is worth the money for us. If you are only interested in the ROI on the basis of where your kids matriculate for college, you are not a family who should send your child to private. [/quote]

+1.

It's so family and reason dependent, which is why some variant of this question gets asked here weekly. But the above encapsulates it pretty well. For whatever reason, the experience is better enough for the kids and the family that the cost seems worth it.[/quote]

Agreed, there’s no single calculation because, depending on where you live, the public and private options will be vastly different.

From my POV: you’re not paying tuition so your kid can access some secret hidden curriculum or get in the back door to Stanford - but so their daily experience at school (where they spend a HUGE portion of their childhood) is positive and rewarding. Given how much time kids spend in school and how it can influence other areas of life, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to spend money in order to have choices (and choose not to spend in other areas).[/quote]

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