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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on how large your classes are in the public school.   My older two hit the growth curve at Janney just right and have had 20 kids per class each year.  My youngest will likely have close to 30 classmates in kindergarten (based on predictions for next year).   The difference between 20 and 30 kids in a class is huge.  
For the first time, we're having lots of private (for our youngest).

However, putting our kids in public has allowed us to afford  lessons (language, musical instruments, private sports coaching, etc) and all sorts of travel/enrichment (including a trip to Europe or Asia each year for the past 5 years).  If we were paying $30k for even one child all these things would be out the window.

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I have to say that I am extremely concerned about the increasing class sizes at Janney.  As a result, for the first time ever, we are considering private also. I'm really surprised that there is not more outrage expressed by the parents on this issue. [/quote]

Have you brought this up? What would be the best forum? Is this discussed at PTA meetings already?[/quote]

I don't know what the best forum would be.  I don't believe it's been discussed at PTA meetings thus far, but I'm not 100% certain about it.  The principal discussed size at the last state of the school meeting (a few weeks ago) and no one challenged her on it--I was so flabbergasted by her lack of acknowledgment of the problem (she framed everything in terms of the "wonderful" co-teaching model the school has adopted) that I couldn't even put a response together myself.  
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