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[quote=Anonymous]Personally, I find it much important to be at the local zoned public at that stage of life.  In ES, K-5, is when they will meet the other kids that live in your neighborhood and will get to socialize with them.  If you put them in private in ES, then you pretty much give up on them having friends who live nearby unless you are involved with some other local activity.  There's a lot of value with knowing and having friends nearby who they can see at the local playground, see in activities that are nearby (we go to local events and often see kids from their school at local events).  If they know kids from ES and then leave for MS or HS, then they will still know the kids if they encounter them in the neighborhood.  They'll still be able to hang out or catch up with kids they knew when younger.  There will still be some element of friendship.  I've found that kids that go to private ES, unless there is some other activity (like regularly meeting at the playground or having neighborhood playdates or running together during the summer), they will not bond as well with other local children later in life.  It will just be some other kids in the neighborhood and they won't have anything in common and they'll be less likely to make the effort to become friends.[/quote]

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