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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I are also Conservative and very briefly considered the pluralistic day school in our area for our kids. Cost was ultimately only one of the factors that turned us away from it. Some of our other reasons for not going to day school were:

1. We are both the product of public schools and really believe in public education. We live in an excellent public school district and the day school doesn't have the best secular academics reputation (not bad, just not stellar, and for the price, I want stellar).

2. We wanted our kids to have friends in our neighborhood, so that when they're old enough to be semi-independent, they can walk down the street to their friends' houses, rather than having their friends flung all over the region.

3. Our synagogue has a fantastic religious school program and active youth groups. We also attend shul regularly (at least twice a month) and observe Shabbat and holidays at home as a family and with family friends. I don't feel like we need to pay half our HHI to give our kids a strong Jewish foundation.

We do have friends who chose to send their kids to the day school and they feel very strongly that full-time Jewish education is worth the cost. Ultimately, it depends on your own personal cost-benefit analysis.[/quote]

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