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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an elementary child who is perfectly happy and content at the local public. He has a lot of friends, is doing well in school and seems to be getting everything he needs from the local school. He attended a preschool that is a private school feeder so most of his former preschool classmates are attending various private schools in the DMV. We can easily afford private school. I can’t help but feel we are somehow hurting our child by sending him to public by not providing the best education we can give to him. He is the type of kid who would do well anywhere. He was very well liked in preschool and had is also well liked now in public. Our preschool had children of famous parents. [/quote]

You gave away your actual concern in the last sentence.  This isn't about the best education for your kid, but whether you think he'll be missing out not to hobnob with the children of wealthier parents.

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We live in a wealthy area. The kids in our school are all UMC. My kid’s public school class has parents who are ivy educated, children of diplomats, lots of lawyers and doctors.

We definitely have some disruptive kids in the class. I suspect they may be on the spectrum and class sizes are bigger than I prefer. There is no shortage of bright kids in the class and grade.

We don’t get the individualized attention. [b]At our preschool, there would be multiple socials to meet teachers and parents. We got pages of commentary about my child’s strengths and weaknesses. [/b]I felt like the teachers really knew my kid. In public, my kid gets good grades and we get two sentences that I’m pretty sure the teacher cut and paste for everyone.[/quote]

That's not a difference between public and private, that's a difference between preschool and elementary school.[/quote]

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