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[quote=Anonymous]Much of it depends on the kid's needs (teacher attention) and the parents' goals (foreign language).

I'll just weigh in on the foreign language piece.  We were thrilled that our kid in private elementary was exposed to a foreign language, which would not have been available in the local public until 6th grade.  But we found that unless the language is done as immersion, foreign languages at the elementary level it aren't really useful.  In private elementary, your kid will learn body parts, colors, some (limited) items in a house, and how to count to 100.  Much of it is repeated from year to year.  They won't start approaching fluency until middle school, or even high school.  If they switch languages in middle school (from spanish to french or latin), they will lose all of the language they learned in elementary school.  This was pretty disappointing to us.

For music too, if that is a priority, you will need to supplement with private music lessons whether you go to public or private.  Although publics and privates both start instruments around 3rd-4th grade, this is often too late if your goal is the MD youth orchestra or something of that ilk.  If your goal is enjoyment, then recorder lessons and an instrument starting in 4th is probably fine.[/quote]

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