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[quote=Anonymous]      We live in an area with great public schools and pretty good special needs support, at least in terms of what our child needs which is minimal. Our neighbors also have a child with some special needs and they go private. It sounds like a great opportunity if you can afford it-small classes, lots of extra attention, close knit parent community etc.

They still have a lot of debt to pay off from their schooling. They also are into fancy cars, swanky vacas, etc and their home was much more expensive than ours because they bought it with all sorts of renovations, etc. Their HH income is much higher than ours. They chose to live how they want to and I respect it. We prefer to have no school debt and more in retirement and we supplement the public school experience with ST, OT and will do tutoring in the future if needed. We drive old unimpressive cars, etc, etc.

The ONLY thing I don't respect or "private school" neighbors for is the number of times they turn up their noses at the fact we use the public school system. They share with us all the horror stories their private school friends share and when we say we are content, we get as lot of pointed questions. We cannot afford private school. Yes we have saved more than they have and we live frugaly, but even if we didn't save as much-cannot afford it. It's almost cruel to keep trying to convince us the public schools are ghastly because we have no other choice![/quote]

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