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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biggest sellers (beyond the religious education which DD gets through our parish anyway) were arts, music, PE, AND FL in ES multiple times a week EVERY week all year long, not just as a once a week "special" that would change every marking period.

We also wanted to avoid over crowded classes and the constant shifts of educational fads.[/quote]

I have also heard this argument, but it seems to me that you could go to public school and still get a whole heck of a lot of after-school activities in arts, music, sports, and language for much less than $35k.[/quote]

New Poster here.  Part of what I like about our children's independent school is that the arts, music, and modern languages are interwoven with the more traditional academic areas of math, science, reading and writing in a thoughtful interdisciplinary approach.  In our local public, that interdisciplinary approach sadly isn't available.  Also, I like the emphasis our children's school places on writing skills, including research papers, persuasive writing, scientific writing, and creative work.  The volume and complexity/sophistication of their writing assignments is significantly greater than that of kids in our local public school, and than kids in the AAP equivalent where I live.  I believe our kids would have more advanced STEM classes available in some public schools than at their independent school, but that hasn't been an issues and as of now it seems our school provides more than enough advanced STEM classes for our kids' interests. I am lucky to have good friends with kids at our local public as well as at a number of independent schools and we share information pretty readily, so I'm pretty comfortable hat I have sufficient information to assess that our children's independent is a better fit than our local public school (or several other private schools with emphases or approaches that I don't think would fit our kids as well).

Whether the differences in the educational experience for a particular child is worth the price of tuition is a personal issue, relating to a family's resources and priorities.  For us, paying tuition has very little real impact on our savings or other spending, which makes it easier to determine the price is worth it (otherwise we wouldn't be doing it!). But, I could easily reach another conclusion if we have other extraordinary financial obligations, or if our income were much lower than it is.  I don't think there is one right answer.  And I never decided that "private school" provided better services than "public school," we just decided that, of teh alternatives available to us, the particular private school our kids go to was the best choice.  That's a very different determination.

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