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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From personal experience, it is painful to be in a tiny setting at a private school where no one is your friend.

That will stay with him for a lifetime, and is not worth one bit of extra attention and organization.

You would be better off homeschooling him and attending a weekly co op with more students his age.

In my opinion, six is an unacceptable number of classmates for a high school student.

110 is still a very small class, but opens him to the possibility of actually making one or two friends.

Listen to your son.[/quote]

I can tell you I am not cut out for home schooling.[b] Plus, that won't help him make friends.[/b] He wouldn't want to be home schooled anyway.
What do you mean 110 is a small class? 
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Your son will have a bigger circle of friends in an active homeschool co-op than he does in a private school with a high school class of 6.  With that tiny of a class, he really is better off socially in a home school co-op (and I am not advocating that, just stating a fact).

110 is a tiny class for high school.  There are many high schools that have close to that many students in their football program alone.  110 is half the size of my niece's medium sized dance studio that goes from ages 2-adult.  110 is a very small class for high school, but it will provide your child enormous opportunities for friendship compared to a class of 6 kids.

In my opinion, the best schools are smaller on the elementary level, medium (200-ish/grade) for the middle school level, and large 400+) at the high school level.  The larger high school provides kids with more academic opportunities, better and more competitive extracurriculars, and enough kids so that everyone can find a social group.
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