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[quote=Anonymous]yes and no.

Private school got me access to high level networking connections, that I dumbly never took advantage of because "I wanted to do it on my own".  For elementry and middle school, the subject matter we covered was about 1-2 grade levels ahead of my public school peers. If your kid has certain educational needs it might be worth it.  If the kid is highly intelligent and self motivated it won't really matter where the kid goes as they will succeed, but if they aren't then there may be some advantages to a private school education beyond networking.

The biggest thing as a student,was having a smaller student body meant it was easy to be a team captain, be on the varsity team, join student government editor of the yearbook etc. Of course the networking potential for internships and like is very useful as well. Just as parents don't get caught up in the lifestyle and compete with everyone else.

the most fun thing was as a kid whose parents weren't as wealthy, the other kids had much better toys, so I always wanted to go to their houses than have friends over.

My private school for k-8 was $3,500 in the early 80's, that same school is now 40k.  That is some crazy tuition inflation...[/quote]

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