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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you guys underestimate how hard it is to go private in a hcol area most people have to tough it out in a public school I know i did and my kid might too.[/quote]

Huh? Can you explain what you mean by "hard"?  
- one of the private school families in a hcol area[/quote]
I mean have you seen the price of homes lately🤣🤣🤣[/quote]

To some of us, public schools are like public housing.  Either pay for it yourself or get an inferior mess.[/quote]

The point is that it can be difficult for people to pay for private school when many bought homes in good neighborhoods, usually planning to send kid to public. It’s not fair for all the rich people to pull their kids out of the system.

We bought in an excellent district. I don’t believe in sequestering rich kids away to private, so we send our kid to public even though we could comfortably afford private. We stuck it out for several years, supplemented at home, did outside math, respectfully raised concerns about curriculum and classroom behavior, and I volunteered countless hours helping to run PTA events including big fundraisers to help teachers (They don’t need it, district is rich.), STEM and science nights. I finally just gave up and we are switching this year.

Public education is a very, very different animal from when I was growing up. I went to a crappy poor school in a town where lots of girls get pregnant or do drugs and drop out. I learned to read at school. I was given advanced spelling lists and also allowed to read after completing math work. Everyone learned to spell, read, and write. Problem kids were sent to the principal, and parents yelled and sometimes spanked their kids. Schools now cannot dole out consequences and neither do parents. Teachers are stuck teaching to the bottom, and the rest of the kids are stuck on screens and ignored. [/quote]

At what age did you switch?[/quote]

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