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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in an area where most of our friends and neighbors go to our local public school, at least for elementary school.  We have had mixed feelings about the school since COVID (started kindergarten during covid) and have decided to move our two older children to our local parochial school.  I feel weird telling our neighbors/friends because I don't want them to think we have bad feelings toward our public school, it just isn't a good fit for our kids right now.  Also DH and I are big proponents of public school, both of us going to public school before college, and are having mixed feelings about having to send our kids to private school. Any thoughts on how to reconcile these feelings? [/quote]

Grow up.
No one cares where your kid goes to school.
If you want to waste your money that is your business. You want your kid going to a religious private where Science and math are of lower quality than public, especially in upper grades, and teaches a religion that supports a church that protects child abusers. Again your choice. And you give money to a place that has Billions in the bank. Again all free choices your free choices currently in the United States of America.[/quote]

OP this is the exact reason you don't engage with your neighbors about switching schools. The vitriol is real and I hate to say it, but I really think a lot of it is jealousy. Not that they want to attend the school you chose, but that you have options that they don't. I posted earlier that we switched many years ago, and we simply told neighbors it was for the religious education. We're Catholic. My youngest ended up doing 8 years of parochial school and is now at a highly sought after top Catholic all girls school. My son attended pubic through middle school and switch to a top Catholic all boys school for HS. He is now at a top 15 university -- admitted with no hooks. All I can say is that we feel the move we made to Catholic schools has made all the difference in our kids' futures. I can't imagine what it would have been like if we kept them in our very strong "W" school district. It has really gone downhill since covid, so I feel we made the right move at the right time.[/quote]

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