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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm super bummed when people peel off for privates, when I thought their values aligned more with ours in being part of public school and the wider community. Whether they're super wealthy or not. We could afford private (it would be a stretch, but...) trying hard to put my money where my mouth is and keep my kids in public - and invest in public.[/quote]

We value our public schools and choose to send our kids to our local schools and invest our time in the school community.

We are all better off with good public schools. It’s a shame when people GAF.

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My kids are not a charity. I’m not sacrificing their education to help another kid learn reading and math. [/quote]

I just checked out an expensive private schools’ curriculum. It offers fewer electives and AP classes than our public does. I don’t feel like I’m sacrificing much, but I”m not the one out 60K each year.[/quote]

the more students you have in a school the more courses you need to offer. Your kid won't be able to take more classes there than at a small school.[/quote]

Silly, I’m not talking about the sections of each course. I’m saying: There are more orchestra and band and chorus levels with higher performing kids in them.  There are higher levels of AP physics at the public than the private and more AP languages offered at the public than the private. Social studies AP is fairly similar, but at the public, kids can take APs in Freshman year, but at the private they have to wait until 11th. Literally a better and higher level of education at the public than the private.[/quote]

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