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[quote=Anonymous]No.  I am not happy.  We made the move in middle school because middle school is just a hard few years socially and emotionally for all tweens.  We figured private might offer a bit of a "safer" space for all the physical and emotional changes that kids are going through at that age.  I suppose that was true.  However, we made the choice to stay for upper school and this I very much regret.  Public schools on the whole has much more to offer academically and for extra curriculars.  I also don't think the "bubble" that exists with most private schools prepares you for college and beyond.  And of course there's the financial investment.  It's not worth the money.  The problem is that once you start in private upper school it can be a pain to transfer back to public just in terms of requirements.  For example, we looked into transferring at the end of 10th grade and because our private counts sports as P.E. our kid would have had to take PE in public in lieu of other more interesting electives.  Also, our private does the science sequencing different than public schools so our kid would have been an 11th grader taking science with 9th graders in public.  It just all seemed like a pain to switch at that point.  [/quote]

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