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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or move for middle school.

Back story: we live in an area zoned for an improving but weak middle school.

Child #2 hits MS next year. She is an okay student who seems to be behind in part because she had an inexperienced and not talented sub for 6 months last year.

Our options are :

1) an ok catholic school where she will get a solid education in the basics. We aent religious, but are not opposed.

2) send to the barely passable public MS knowing a tutor will be needed to be prepared for HS

3) have her join oldest at expensive private. She doesn't really want to go there, and we cant really afford it.

4) move, probably to attend westland.

For option 2) we dont know how to structure a full scale supplementation plan for math, language arts, but i think it will be much less than $40k.

Advice welcome and needed.[/quote]

Is the high school you're zoned for going to be an issue also, or is it just the middle school? If it's just MS, I'd vote to do either option 1 or 3 for 2-3 years, depending on your budget. Could you look for not just an OK Catholic school, but a fairly good one? Some are better than others. If it's run by a diocese, it will still be less expensive than an independent school.

If the public high school is a problem too, I'd probably look at moving or going Catholic the whole way.[/quote]

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