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As the mother of a child with gifts and disabilities who seriously considered private school, I can only advise you to continue trying to persuade her out of her poor financial choices.
We send our children to a highly reputable school district, and *are not perfectly happy with it*, but it's the best we can afford with retirement and college to save for. ALSO, we analyzed private school curriculae, discussed it with other private school parents, and realized that the grass wasn't always greener there! Just because it's private doesn't mean it's better.

The truth is that parenting and education begins and ends at home. As a parent, she has to be willing and able to put in the work: discuss current events at the dinner table, curate a reading list of classics for her daughter, give her cursive to practice, writing assignments during the summer, math problems throughout the year... the reality is that schools in the USA don't really prepare kids for international competition and the top colleges. Parents have to step in.
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