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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is me as well and like one of the PPs, there are a bunch of Big 3 parents at our school as well. Part of it is that the costs are that much higher, but part of it is that we know what the benefits are -- and aren't. [/quote]

There is also much more of a 'culture of celebrity' than there used to be, and a lot of us don't want our kids (or ourselves!) in that environment.  We live in MoCo and one thing I really missed as a kid was going to our neighborhood school.  [/quote]

This is an interesting point -- regarding the backdrop:  I've noticed at my child's "elite" private preschool[b] there are many social climbers who seem just as vested in what the school can do for them (from a social/networking standpoint) as they are in what the school is doing for their child's development[/b]. Luckily the school is excellent in terms of teaching and nurturing the kid's in a developmentally appropriate way, which was important for these crucial first 5 years. But these are the same folks that will be going on to the Big 3 privates. These Big 3s have drastically changed since we were growing up, like a PP said. And SO much is focused on soliciting donations. [/quote]

This is 100% why we are not going private.
- big 3 grad[/quote]

My in-laws are very status oriented and in my opinion weren't wealthy enough to send their kids to fancy privates, especially since they were zoned for great publics.  I pretty much want to do the exact opposite of everything they did.  I want a neighborhood school with normal kids and money in the bank.  I don't want my kids in some pressure cooker or around a bunch of social climbers.  We do extremely well professionally and financially and I don't have any need to send my kids to a private.  [/quote]

Yes, public school can be BETTER. And for all these reasons. School is about culture as much as science.
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Exactly!  And seriously, OP, is Janney really soooooo awful that it's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to get away from it?  Is it really that different, ffs?[/quote]

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