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[quote=Anonymous]No, I went to a private school that involved a commute and having friends and activities spread across the city. I hated it and only lasted 2 years (this was middle school).

My kids now go to neighborhood schools. All their friends and extracurriculars are close by. They ride the bus to school, but sometimes my DH walks them the 1 mi on nice days. They play outside with the neighborhood kids after school (when they don’t have sports practices). We are friends with a lot of the parents nearby so it’s easy to trade off helping a neighbor with carpooling to birthday parties and sports since our social network is all within ~5 min of our house. As for the school itself, they have fantastic teachers, and one of my kids has SNs and we’ve been really happy with the level of support he gets at school.

All this to say that having a local network can be so amazing for kids and families. I would not add a long commute to my kids’ days just because some colleagues suggest it. The only way I’d look into a private that would upend my family’s schedule is if we were unhappy with the public school for some reason and/or my kids were not doing well there.

Don’t take them away from their friends and teachers just to keep up with the Joneses. [/quote]

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