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[quote=Anonymous]Geneticist here: the risks of pesticides and fertilizers are long-term. They elevate cancer risks and are possible endocrine disruptors. You're fine now. Maybe you won't be fine later. You don't know that yet. Maybe you, personally, are not genetically predisposed to be sensitive to pesticides, but perhaps someone else is, and for them eating non-organic will cause a cancer that they otherwise would not have developed. Since we don't yet have the capacity to screen people at birth and understand exactly how pesticides alter which genetic pathway in the human body... we cannot tell who is more at risk.

Regarding private vs public, some thoughts from a BTDT parent:

1. EVERY elementary school, public or private, caters to the lowest level in the class, because they need to get the kids to read and write and count. So if you have higher standards than the absolute basic minimum, you supplement in elementary. This is what I did, and what a lot of parents do, regardless of the school. At the secondary level, it's a completely different ball game.

2. In my wealthy neighborhood that's 50% private, 50% public, all the kids gets tutors or test prep at some point, usually middle or high school. It's a function of wealth and understanding how the system works: sometimes it's remedial, sometimes it's to get ahead. But it's definitely a rich people thing.

3. If your public is terrible, of course a private is justified. But we chose to move to a wealthy neighborhood with a good public so we could have a nice house in a lovely neighborhood. Our property has appreciated significantly, and home values in such districts are always more stable than in lower-performing school districts. We were also able to invest in the stock market all these years, instead of spending too much money for K-12 education, which now allows us to pay for any college, public or private, for our kids. So choosing public, real estate and where to spend/invest our money was a carefully thought out decision.

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