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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids went to public ES, then moved to Sidwell for MS and HS.  If I had it to do over, I'd wait to move them until HS; middle school isn't really worth it.  The advantages to waiting until later to move (aside from saving a boatload of money, of course) are that your kid will have some sense of the real world, rather than just the private school bubble, and that you'll have a better sense of which school would be the right match for him/her.  As some PPs have noted, lifers sometimes end up at the wrong school (though I don't buy the line that the lifers are all at the bottom of the class -- some are, but there are always lifers right up at the tippy-top too).  Finally, OP, please don't talk yourself into believing that your child must go to private school or she'll never get into a good college or grad school or find the right mate or succeed professionally or . .. yadda, yadda, yadda.  Our kids have had good peers and teachers at Sidwell, but honestly, no school is perfect -- or even close.       [/quote]

It all depends on how deficient their academic experience has been up to 8th grade. Not everyone has the advantage of waiting until upper school to apply from public school.  It really depends upon the education your DC is receiving at their current public, whether or not they're engaged in supplemental enrichment activities/tutoring, and how well they test if they will be prepared to apply to private schools at the 9th grade entry year.   Over the years, family friends who made it into private school after middle school from publics flunked out and had to leave either at the end of 9th or middle of 10th.  I totally agree that middle school at a private is a huge waste of money. Some lifers tend to be on autopilot and drift academically to the middle or lower of the class.  From PK-8 there was a huge whirlwind of parties.  And a attitude that your lower school grades really don't matter.   At DS's school, there are usually a few lifers at the top by senior year.  You're spot on about the private school bubble.  It's crucial that your DC is aware that the attitudes, lifestyles, etc., presented in the land of private school isn't that of the real world.  [/quote]

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