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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You learn who your friends are.  I lived in a neighborhood where we were the only  family that went private for k.  The whole neighborhood ousted me and my dd.  we were no longer  invited to parties Halloween etc.  it was hurtful to my dd.  we eventually and thankfully moved![/quote]

A similar thing happened to my neighbor who eventually moved. She put her kid in private and then complained that the other kids nearby would often exclude her DD. Well the other kids all went to the same school all day long, walked to and from school together, and played right after school before the private school got out. They all had overlapping friends from the school too who would come over. Maybe your neighbors were really mean, but it could just also be that they had more in common and saw each other more. Preschool and elementary are when a lot of parents are meeting and becoming good friends with other families. Also, in our neighborhood, the private had an ok but not great reputation while the public was one of the top 10 elementary schools in the state, so I think neighbors had a hard time understanding why the family kept debating between the two for over a year. It would have been better for them to have just made a decision to go with the private to at least come across as if they felt passionately about something with the school.[/quote]

The thing about public -- they all bill themselves as the best in the State, even in the Nation. But that is seldom true.[/quote]

Well the state says differently and so do privates as well. They have these things called awards.[/quote]

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