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This! I hate discussing schools with people. It is a conversation riddled with ego land mines.[b] I don't care what people think about my choice but I don't like it when people think my choice is a rejection of theirs.[/b] [/quote] My feelings exactly!  [/quote]

I've had friends come right out and tell me that we're making a mistake by sending our child to public school, that even what we consider to be a good public school will almost definitely fail us, and that we'll only be happy in a private school.  We don't have high enough HHI to feel comfortable going private.  So now we're left feeling like we're sending our kid to a crappy school, but without the resources to do otherwise.  awesome.[/quote]

Please don't take those friends' words to heart. We all make the best decisions we can based on the information and resources we have. The reflexive response seems to be to feel there's some kind of inherent criticism in other people's choices. It's the anxiety response. It's not about you, but about them. And FWIW, we've had people tell us it's a mistake to send our DC to private school, so this goes both ways. DC is all about the anxiety and competition. [/quote]

If you makes you feel any better, we are at a Big 3 school and while when we first began there I didn't feel there was a different between the very wealthy and everyone else. Unfortunately, just being honest, we can start to really see a difference and a group of families that were not there when we started have at the school are very cliquey (all live near each other, go to the same club, etc…, carpool, etc...) and because they span over a few different grades with their children people can start to feel a negative difference at the school. So point being, even though we are supposedly in the "right" school - not sure how it will pan out for us and our child because if she is not happy socially - that is a strong component of success at a school so we now need to be aware of it. [/quote]

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