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[quote=Anonymous]We moved from public to private last year, and agree with the post below, except our private school is fairly diverse (at least in terms of race/ethnicity), and the kids socialize in a bit more integrated way than in the public school. We are also getting better support from a learning specialist than we got in public school. A big downside of private school, other than the cost, is that kids usually don't live near each other and it's much harder to get together after school. In contrast, all the kids from our child's public school live nearby and our child still socializes more with them than with kids from the private school.

[quote=Anonymous]We moved to private last year, HS students after 10 years in public. For us, the big differences are:

Class size - our public usually had 35 in their HS classes, our private caps at 15

School size - from well over 2,500 to 1,000 for the entire school

Responsiveness - we had to call the school about something relatively minor and it was addressed/resolved in less than 24 hours.  In public it can take days to get an answer, longer to set up a meeting, and even longer for any change to happen

Diversity- our public school had more (races socioeconomic, religion, just about every metric you can think of)[/quote][/quote]

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