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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not directly on point, but i'll play devil's advocate: I went to private from grades two through five. My mom pulled me out of public because our in-bounds school had two tracks: immersion (which now everyone loves, so it's crazy to think in the 80s that people were worried this wasn't a great option) and split classes (i.e. 30 kids from 1st and 2nd in one room with 2 teachers - chaos!).  I went to all girls school, which cost around $4500 a year back then. I was highly gifted, and spent much of my time doing independent work. My mother was chummy with the vice-principal, who ultimately suggested to her that I transfer to the local public middle school that had a strong gifted program.  Apparently, the VP told my mom that their job was to take bright but not stellar young women and get them into good colleges. From a quick scan of facebook, looks like most of my old classmates met upper middle class men and have lots of babies staying home in the same suburb we grew up in.  I don't think the school ever saw its role as educating the next supreme court justice.  This was in a suburb with good schools, but the private did come anywhere near matching the competitive, academic and special schools that we seem to have today in DC.  So definitely a different era and not an apples to apples comparison.

We used to live in Florida, and I would never ever ever send my kids to private there.  Most of the people with money in Florida do so through, well, non academic means. Lawyers don't get particularly rich down there. So you have professional atheletes, real estate developers, modeling and film industry, and a lot of people stashing their money from other shady economies (like Russians, Venezuelans etc who likely made money under the counter and needed to get it out).  The private schools are consequently a non-academic sh*t show.  Crazy drugs, partying and stuff you don't want to think of 16 year olds doing. There is no way I'd put my kid in private there.  Very different than DC where there is such an emphasis on education and career. [/quote]

You are generalizing about Florida's privates. [/quote]

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