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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When everyone talks about I went to private and did fine...just as my husband argues...the missing piece of the discussion is that public school circa 1980s or whenever you went is very different from how kids are being educated today in public school.  They will not be going to school under similar teachers, curriculum, peers or environments as we did in the olden days.   In addition, those who graduated from publics that were not in major metro areas similar to DC had a different experience than our kids will have as well.[/quote]
I meant "I went to public and did fine"[/quote]
I went to public school in a NYC suburb that is very much like the suburb where we live now. I didn't receive any acceleration until middle school. I only took 3 AP classes. Our kids are getting much more out of their public education than I got out of mine, and it still got me into a couple of Ivies. My niece is graduating from the very same public high school I attended 30 years ago. She is trying to choose among acceptances from Brown, Barnard and Princeton as we speak.[/quote]

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