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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I were to raise kids in NYC all over again, I would totally do a good zoned public for elementary school and apply to private for middle. I feel that all the money spent for K-5 in my kids' private schools was probably not necessary. [/quote]

Honestly, with the class size law starting to apply to not just the highest-need schools, even the case for private middle school is getting weaker - your 6th grader’s experience in a 23-kid math class in the screened program at Wagner is probably not going to be $65,000 inferior to the experience they’d get a few blocks away at Dalton or Spence.

(it will, however, guarantee you a spot in their high schools and thus spare you from that particular rat race)[/quote]

Agreed - going to private starting in K just guarantees you peace of mind. And for private K they have less academic info to judge your kid on, which could be good or bad. But it is a lot of money to spend when there are very good free options.

A good zoned public elementary is great and there are plenty of them. Do not obsess with G&T - top zoned publics are just as good (or even better) and G&T often has a lot of kids and families who think they are extra special when they really aren't.

And there are plenty of very good public middle schools, though there is no guarantee you will get your top choice. On the east side you might have to travel a bit - for instance, Salk is a great school and not an awful commute but a bit of a trek from the UES. On the west side there is Booker which thinks it is Stuy-prep (which has pros and cons) then a few other schools which are small and good such as WESS and Computer.

We did public K-8 and went through the public and private HS process, which was a miserable experience though the outcome was good. We found that kids who did K-8 public were doing just as well (or even better) at TT privates as kids who had been in private K-8.[/quote]

How have your kids adjusted socially? Was it hard making friends when a large number of kids had been together since elementary or middle school (assuming a K-12 school)?[/quote]

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