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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad was a private school teacher, and I went to private schools we would have been otherwise unable to afford thanks to that, and he has said on more than one occasion that he doesn't really know that private school is doing anything for kids that public school wouldn't - the advantages those kids enjoy are advantages they would enjoy even without private school.

For my own part, we're a little better off than my parents were and could swing one or even two private school tuitions if we pushed ourselves, but at the moment my kids both attend perfectly nice zoned D2 public schools, and until COVID wound down they attended highly-ranked suburban public schools, and in neither case have I felt like they were missing out on much of anything that I had. They were both bored and unchallenged, but I also felt that way in private school, and at any rate the extra time + money have let them aggressively pursue other pursuits (e.g. multiple hours of private music lessons per week, which they love). Also frankly I never fit in socially in those schools - I was always the poor brainy teacher's kid - and I'm pretty sure my kids wouldn't either.

We might apply to TT privates for high school if we feel like we have a good chance of getting in (which their test scores suggest will be doable) since there'd be a significant boost to their college prospects that way and high school is when the difference in facilities between Bronx Science and Horace Mann starts to matter more, but at least for K-8 I remain unconvinced that there's any meaningful difference in the education they'll get in private school, particularly now that the class size law means that public school class sizes are a lot closer to private school ones.[/quote]

We felt similarly. Considered private for K but particularly because our son was a summer birthday he would have been very young in private while middle of the class in public. Great uptown zoned public so we decided to do that and we are very glad we did. Publid middle was not perfect but it was fine. He had a good specialized option but we switched to private for high school. We are not rich but could make private high school work - K-12 would not have been as easy. We made the right choice for our child and family but every kid (and every family's circumstances) are different.[/quote]

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