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[quote=Anonymous]I wrote about the changing demographics. It is correct that the demographic change is not going to happen for the next 2 -5 years.  And that will be the beginning of the shift. But OP doesn't actually have kids in school so that timeline may be ok.

As far as the idea that private schools don't have "discipline" problems  - LOL!  OP is deluding him/herself. Where do you think the parents of discpline problem kids send them? "Johnny just needs a small class room ..." blah, blah, - tranlsation  is my kid has issues that I can't admit and won't deal with but I expect the school to do so because I pay them.

My kid is in private school and the overwhelming majority of parents who live in the City and use private school all say the same - if they felt there was a good public school option, they would use it. The majority of parents would not pick private school whereas in other parts of the area parents do pick private over public even when public is a good choice.

As far as the challenging students, I think OP you just need to say that you don't want your kids to be a majority low SES school. It's really ok to say it and I get it.  If I was in Old Town and found out Jefferson-Houston was my home school, I would be moving.[/quote]

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