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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think if the child has educated parents, the benefits of private really start in middle school.  That's when we moved our kids to private.  Before that, if there are any deficiencies, they can usually be made up at home.[/quote]

I'm wondering about this.  Do you think it's hard to get a kid into private school at middle school?

My Kindergartner is in private now ( we live in another state).  The school is fine, but I do feel like my husband and I teach him everything he knows.  His teachers are much more interested in behavior.  They basically said at the conference that he was doing great because he sits at circle time and knows the routines and follows directions etc... And I'm happy to hear this, but there didn't seem to be any emphasis on learning.  For example i believe my son struggles with reading/writing/letter sounds.  We work with him a lot at home and we can tell he's improving.  The teachers didn't notice he was having any trouble.  And then our son is really good at math.  He loves it and is already doing multiplication.  We do math activities/games with him at home and he loves it.  I recently taught him how to tell time.  I feel like most of the things he knows is from us teaching him.  His teachers said that in math they are just learning to write numbers so they had no idea he could add/subtract and even multiply.  Then at the end they showed us some kind of test that all the kids did.  It was mostly a language arts type of test.  Our son got slightly below average on this.  ( not below average for his class, but out of all test takers).  We thought this was an important piece of info!  We'd like to know which areas he struggles with and we know there are some... that way we can help.  His teachers didn't even talk about this and are not concerned.  I realize it is just kindergarten and so many things come with time and there is no need to make a big deal about the things he struggles with, but I just thought at a private school the teachers would be more in tune with this sort of thing and give extra help where it is needed.

So this has my husband and I wondering if we should just put him in public school for now and save the costly tuition.  We feel we can help him with areas where he has difficulty.

And we do like the school he is in.  Maybe I shouldn't be so concerned with academics in Kindergarten??

The other thing I wonder about is neighborhood friends and playmates.  His schoolmates live in a much broader area and it would be nice to have more neighborhood friends.  But will I care about this later? [/quote]

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