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[quote=Anonymous]I don't consider us *~wealthy~*, particularly for this area, but we could afford private school easily - we both have high incomes, few debts, and just have one kid so we're not paying for a huge house, either. Private school wouldn't be a hardship for us. We're sticking with public though for a few reasons.

1. I went to private elementary and public middle and high school. Sixth grade was very shocking to little me after the orderly small school I was used to. I would have remained a very sheltered person and never interacted with people that were very different from myself if I'd never gone to public school. Probably my biggest fear for my privileged white male child is that he'll end up a clueless and entitled adult that believes he's better than people without similar advantages. Of course not all private school kids turn out that way, and public school is no guarantee he won't, but it feels easier to avoid him becoming the drunk driving lacrosse frat bro of my nightmares this way.

2. With a few exceptions (say your child has a disability that public school is not doing well at accomodating), I don't see how you can have leftist politics but send your kids to private school. I can't just be like "well, sucks to be you" to the kids that can't afford to leave. We have to stay and work to improve things.

3. Someone else said this earlier, but the value of having a neighborhood school has been really high for us. I'm an introvert with an extroverted only child, and the fact that he can now just go outside and play with his classmates is so nice. If I had to drive him somewhere everytime he wanted to socialize, one of both of us would be a lot less happy.[/quote]

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