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[quote=Anonymous]My family moved around a lot when I was a kid. I attended public ES, private ES, public MS, private MS, independent k-12, religious, single sex. The only school I did not attend was a public high school.

In my lived experience, it depends on the kid and the schools involved. And no one on this board is going to be able to give you a great answer. They don’t know the situation.

My favorite school was the independent K-12 but I think it just fit me best. My least favorite was a 6-12 private. With the publics in the middle. Private is not automatically better even if you can easily afford it. Private schools may only have 1 or 2 classes in the early years and the teacher may be a bad fit with your kid. But you can get a bad teacher at public too. Just luck of the draw when so much comes down to one teacher.

Having applied to many private schools for my own children, it is a hard process when you are applying out from one private school to a competitor private school. It is at best awkward but there is a lot of passive aggressive comments and even down right obstruction when you are trying to leave one private for a competitor. If you are moving across the country, it’s better but administrators can slow roll your transcripts and make life difficult if you don’t want to stay at k-12 whereas my public school teachers were always happy for me to try and apply to private school and would write great letters of recommendation. If you know you aren’t going to stay at your current k-12 might be worth trying public. Then you can apply to middle school without the issues of leaving a private school for a competitor. But you know your kids best so don’t listen to me.

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