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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I assume if anything, private school will hurt my kids’ chances in college admissions because they will have a lower class ranking.  The flip side is they’ll end up better educated and more well-rounded than they would have had they gone to public school, so we’ll take the trade-off.[/quote]

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They'll also have a much better 13 years of school before going to college. Why people don't understand that that outweighs four years in college I don't know. [/quote]

I came on to say just this. Come on. Everyone here went to college. It’s not irrelevant to various things, including grad school prospects, and it tends to be fun and somewhat formative. That second point is true wherever a kid goes, so long as it isn’t their parents’ basement. But did anyone here really think the prestige of their college was the make or break for work ethic? Love of learning? Learning to work as a team? Forming your basic values? Those mostly happen before college. Even if some things change in college—political views, etc—they’re changing from a baseline that was already formed. K-12 forms you—far more than college. [b]K-12 is not a mindless path to college.[/b] [/quote]

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