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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the county-run publics in the DC region can be solid but aren’t going to deliver top-tier education in the way that smaller public districts further north like Brookline, MA, Short Hills, NJ, or Scarsdale, NY can. [/quote]

I wouldn’t say those are top tier. If you live in those towns, go to Roxbury Latin, Lawrenceville, and Horace Mann, respectively. [/quote]

Lawrenceville is like an hour and 30 minutes away from Short Hills. PP has no idea what they're talking about. Millburn High School (which services Short Hills) is a great public school, but not even the best in NJ. Most of the people I knew in Short Hills that went private went to Pingry, Kent Place and Newark Academy for independent schools, or if they were Catholic they went to Delbarton or Oak Knoll.[/quote]

Delbarton and Pingry arent good and anything with Newark in it is a sign to run for the hills. Nonetheless, all are better options than any NJ public school.

Lawrenceville is the best HS in NJ. It’s convenient to board there from Short Hills. [/quote]

If you're boarding, almost any option is convenient. Get out of here with that nonsense. This is not a common option even for people choosing private over public.[/quote]

Boarding in New England if you live in Texas or Georgia is not convenient.  Boarding 90 minutes away within the same state is convenient, and that is why I said Lawrenceville and not Woodberry Forest.

Boarding schools are more generous with aid than day schools, and often less expensive than DC NYC Boston day schools.

Please keep defending public education, I'll get my popcorn.[/quote]

Most kids are not attending boarding school as a boarding student in state…[/quote]

About half of the boarders at Madeira are local boarders (DC, MD or VA).  Episcopal also has a good number of local boarders.[/quote]

Exactly.  That poster attacking the idea of someone from Short Hills attending Lawrenceville is out of his or her depth.[/quote]

I'm just saying I don't think it's a particularly common option. 30% of students are not boarders. 20% are international, which leaves fewer than 500 students K-12 presumably coming from all over New Jersey and perhaps other parts of the country. The number of students from Short Hills is likely low.[/quote]

Going to boarding school is not common but going to private school AT ALL (including parochial schools) is uncommon, as in well south of one in six students in the U.S. at any given time.  To my original response to you, though, the elite privates in a major metro are better than the best publics in terms of academic rigor and educational quality.  [/quote]

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