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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMHO, the private is worth it if it provides the atmosphere where your child is most likely to be their best self. A private will not magically get your kid into a top college. It may encourage them to participate more, speak up, get involved in
school, study harder, be more accountable, etc which are skills that will benefit them for the the college applications process and beyond. If your child is the type to do this at a public then private is probability not worth it. [/quote]

This is exactly the case. Our firstborn has flourished in public school, and would have felt constrained in the majority-wealthy, largely homogenous private school that we had considered. Our second child, on the other hand, has been languishing in public school. The child gets good grades, but only because we push DC. We will be sending DC to private school in September because of higher expectations from teachers, greater accountability at school, encouragement from teachers to participate so DC can't simply hide in the back and get away with it. It is a heavy lift for us financially, but the cost of having a child lost in the public school system is even greater. In a nutshell: public schools are great for the top 1% go-getting, ambitious students. I am betting my DC will beat out any privately educated, cosseted kid. But for the other child, we need more eyes and encouragement that the public system can't give to the remaining 99% of students. [/quote]

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