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[quote=Anonymous]It's all about how much value you think private school education is adding. We are in a good school district but mapped to a below average school. We thus opted for private for our older daughter.

I was a product of private school myself, and was convinced that it was the only option. Let's just say tuition in real dollars, i.e. inflation adjusted, was nearly 40-50% less than it is today for comparable private schools back then like my own. Unless money is no object (I'm thinking HHIs at $600k+ while we are around $300k), I'm finding it very difficult to see the value for us of the private education if we had the choice of a high performing public school , especially at the elementary school level. Again, I don't begrudge people of their individual choices.

For us we stay in private only because we don't have school choice. We could move a few blocks over and be mapped to a public school we're delighted with and would gladly transfer our child.

Right now I don't want to bear the transaction costs of moving, but before our second child reaches K age, we will certainly move (if only a few blocks) to ensure mapping to excellent public schools.

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