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[quote=Anonymous]People in Boston don’t leave. There’s so many legacies and students who only apply in and around New England.

You probably know this, but my husband is from Massachusetts and one thing if you look at some of the good public high schools in the Boston suburbs, they have good test outcomes and matriculation, but they are very very homogeneous: race, family income, access to tutors, sports etc.—arguably these kids would do well anywhere.

Many towns have relatively small graduating classes compared to the DC suburbs, which has its advantages and disadvantages. We have family and friends, whose kids really struggled because the social scene was tough.

The towns are self funded based on the size of the town—there’s no county structure or pooling of resources. Hence, there’s issues especially around special education and electives etc. Lots of districts pay big money to send kids to private schools because they don’t have the resources for special ed—far more common there than here.

I can’t speak much to Boston proper or the privates schools[/quote]

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