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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This is all about everyone justifying THEIR choices which nobody should do or worry about.[/b]

I don't even tell people my kid is applying to private HS because of the judgmental people that have to weigh in on why it is a stupid idea.  I found,after telling one person when she asked if my kid was going to attend our public HS that he was applying to private HS, people get very weird about it.  They make your choice about them.  They think you are saying the public school is no good or not good enough for your kid.  Then, inevitably comes the blanket statement that there are drugs there or something else. WTF? I don't bash the public HS.

My kids went to public school K-8.  My husband and I attended public K-12.  I know the academics are sold at our HS.  That is not the primary reason we are choosing to go private for HS.  As other pps have noted, many things change when schools reach a certain tipping point in numbers.  [/quote]

Well, I think it can be helpful to hear the thinking behind people's choices as you weigh your own.  I'm the PP with a private HS background who revised my worries about large school size and ended up happily sending my kids to a large public HS and seeing benefits I hadn't imagined.  I in part did this because I listened to others.  I wouldn't presume I had all the info to judge a person's decision on something as personal as this but the point of forums is to hear these different perspectives.[/quote]

Opposit situation, opposite decision for us.  I attended a large public HS.  I got a lot of feedback from parents with older kids that made the switch to private in 9th.  It’s been great for my kids.[/quote]

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