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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not going to asnwer all the really identifying questions, but we have the abilty to send our kids to private but are keeping them in public (for now -- middle school). some reasons:

i used to work in a private school, and while the amount of care of attention each kid gets is amazing, the kids always felt very sheltered and coddled to me. They are not used to the wider world and huddled together, they expected adults to guide them to opportunities (rather than seek them out themselves). That always made me hesistant about switching to

college results -- the public middle/high school that my kid is in actually has extremely good college results, and they help the kids secure scholarship money as well. We are just barely UMC (grandparents offered to pay for private), but would love for our kids to get scholarships, if possibe, and private school is less inclined to help with that. both kids are extremely good students with 99th percentile test scores, so i think they might actually get better college/scholarship results if they stay in public.

that said, i think about private all the time and wonder what my kids are missing by not going. I could always change my mind in a few years and try and send them for high school. [/quote]

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