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[quote=Anonymous]It varies and I have taught in private schools. If you have wealthy parents who are paying because it's a way to gift money tax free or you have a trust fund, inherited wealth or a very high income it's a different discussion than if finances matter.

Pros: small classes, beautiful facilities, teacher can give more attention to students because of the small classes, often better instruction in language arts, some incredible teachers but you have that in public too

Cons: Often public schools have more rigorous math programs, sometimes better in science too. Wealthy bubble may not be such a good thing if you want your kid to be down to earth and have perspective, costs more than some colleges, teachers don't have to have same level of credentials as public and having a master's or Ph.D in subject doesn't mean they know how to teach it, lower pay for teachers so harder get rid of bad ones and often those teachers are wealthy and there is risk of lawsuit so they shuffle them around. Teachers don't always get needed feedback to improve because parents afraid to complain. Families have fewer rights than in public school unless they are a mega donors. If you give too much "constructive criticism" they can tell you the school isn't a match. Getting rid of APs is BS IMO. Some teachers stank at preparing students so now they use shady to say it's advanced, but you need to do independent prep to be ready for AP. (Translation-this teacher won't prep your kid well). They make the excuse it's so they don't have to follow what the college board dictates, but it's a way to keep teachers who don't produce IMO.[/quote]

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