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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had our kids in a crappy suburban public school, and now they're in slightly less crappy urban public schools, and our philosophy throughout has been Grant Allen's "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - there's a lot more to life than school.

One of them is a performing arts kid, which has also given her all sorts of useful related skills (if she ends up on a debate team in high school she'll be absolutely terrifying), and the other one is a coding whiz and a promising novelist; they can do algebra and churn out a 5-paragraph theme with the best of them, but that's not what their lives revolve around.[/quote]
The concern I have as a fellow public school parent with a similar family philosophy is that, come high school, the choice becomes between brutally competitive pressure-cooker environments, like Stuy/LaGuardia, where the overwhelming amount of work and focus does indeed interfere with broader extra-curricular education, and the lackluster publics where a lot of kids are coasting, perhaps doing drugs, etc and your talented whiz kids would be swimming upstream.  Top privates, at least in theory, give a promise of a better balance, but of course, there are many counterexamples and caveats to that as well.[/quote]

I dont want to be the one to break it to you, but NYC privates have massive drinking/drug cultures, too. Kids will be kids.[/quote]
Sure, I am aware.  But is that the case with, e.g. Brearley or Trinity?[/quote]

LOL.  My daughter is in 7th at a TT private  and she knows of Brearley girls already drinking.  [/quote]

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