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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your family can afford private school but you opt-in to public school, why?

As you can guess from the question, we can afford private but for a variety of complicated reasons decided to go public. A big one of which was that we went to public school ourselves and turned out fine. I now find myself continually second-guessing myself with a bit of a “grass is greener” perspective. I feel like if I can afford private I should, and that I need to justify the decision to myself to continue to go public.

Would be helpful to hear from other people in a similar situation.

(I hope this question doesn’t come off the wrong way. I know these boards get hella judgy and hopefully you didn’t read the title and get mad thinking someone was judging people who choose to go to public school. I also recognize we are in a good situation to be able to have the choice, and that my consternation about it is a luxury problem.)[/quote]

Because I received a good eduction in private school, but I was a bit disconnected from my neighborhood and don’t feel as if we had a home base. Also, private school lack[b]s[/b] the economic diversity that is helpful in understanding the world.

Usually the people that ask me or tell me that it is a shame I am “forced” to send our children to [b]public[/b] school actually went to public school themselves and can now afford private school for their own children.

We carefully chose a home zoned to schools that we felt could academically prepare our children but also had some measure of racial and economic diversity. [/quote]. Sorry edited above.
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