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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's so much more to a private school education than basic math and a lacrosse team. I really encourage you to go to some more schools on your list and speak to current families about their experiences and reasons for sending their children to private school. Smaller class sizes, teachers who know your child well, focus on writing and research, skilled college counseling, well-rounded curriculum with opportunities in arts and athletics, sense of community, friends for life, etc.[/quote]

I see your point. But I am still quite surprised to see lots of private school's major marketing is sports, facilities, theater programs, but not their education and curriculum. I could go to an either tour without learning a single thing about curriculum. It is all a little bit vague. And then I also don't know how the college admission statistics is really a result of good education or because the parents are all VIPs and are legacies of Ivies. [/quote]

Good education so table stakes. You get into good colleges these days because of sports and theater and extracurricular.   All you have to do is take the most rigorous courses at your high school and you make the academic cutoff for elite schools.  And they are college prep courses without having to spend time on remediation or the latest state test so kids are prepared.  [/quote]

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