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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is a K student in GDS.  I have been thinking about the same problem since he entered prk there.   My friends' children in very good public school could write a full paragraph the end year of K.  They also did research paper writing about the frog's life.  But my son's class just showed parents what they could do in playground now. Now I really don't know if it is worth the money to go private.  My view is that what students can achieve in playground was a development by themselves over the one year in the school, not related to school very much.  I am afraid my son will be left behind accademically, compared to public school students.  Could someone share more of their experience in private and their views about it?  Maybe the writing in K is not important?  I recently feel so frastrated that we paid the money while it seemed that great public school could provid similar or even better education.[/quote]

My DC was still napping (hard!) in private her KDG year.  She was the last one to give it up, in fact.  The others were all reading, doodling, etc., during quiet time  Teacher told us not to worry, she would be able to do it eventually, meanwhile she was playing games and doing outside recess all year long and making friends and learning about rocketships and fashion and recycling and everyone was happy.

10 years later she is finishing 9th grade and reads more than anyone I know.  Writes well, loves science and math.  Straight As in a very good HS.  Was well-prepared for 9th grade.  Would NOT have happened in any of our public options.  Still sleeps a lot, though :).

Main point being: don't despair now, the private schools will often catch up and by 3rd he will be impressing you with all he knows about frogs (or mealworms, or lizards, or dinosaurs...).

I will add one caveat, though: [b]if and only if [/b][u]you have a math genius (and I mean TRUE genius), some of the local public schools here do have an edge over many small private schools in math.  It is hard for small schools to differentiate much in math , and last spring while on high school tours, I saw several of my daughter's supposed peers 2 or even 3 years ahead of her "advanced" status as an Algebra 1 student in 8th grade.

This only matters if your local public actually has outstanding math options though (many don't); in the real world. Algebra 1 in 8th is just fine :).

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