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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You seem judgmental of those who want a higher bar than “adequately.”[/quote]

I’ll reiterate that we did publics in high end burbs for elementary and middle and I don’t feel at all like we were missing out on big 3 education as my kids have been very very successful in the transition.  Public seemed to prepare them quite well; candidly, they are doing better than many of their lifer peers.  We chose our local public not for financial reasons but for cohort and quality of teachers and community of neighbors.  Their public have a bunch of HYP type wealthy parents. Their teachers were well paid and smart and overall good (yes, we got some duds here and there!).  But even more than that our kids grew up riding their bikes and free ranging around the neighborhood with their lovely and bright neighborhood kids, testing limits, exploring independently, sleeping over at neighbors houses, playing on all the teams with their neighborhood school mates.  I do feel that these families mistakenly put their belief in the local public high school and that academically there is a huge gap in upper schools.  But, just to give a different viewpoint: we though that private elementary and middle school was not only a financial toilet flush but my kids would be losing out on a valuable experience.  So, yes, adequate for us![/quote]

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