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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

Thank you for these responses, they are helpful and largely seem to support, not trying to add the potential for long-term friendships to the list of criteria and evaluating public versus private school starting from kindergarten.

There are a couple of responses here that are intentionally inflammatory and clearly generalizations. I am ignoring those. [b]I will look forward to reading other responses that come in from parents who were actually in this situation 20-40 years ago.[/b]

DCUM continues to be so very helpful, thank you. [/quote]

I have a situation where I was in and out of private schools.

Started out in Catholic school K-3, public 4-6, Catholic 7-8, public 9-11, started 12th at Catholic, finished at original public HS. All three Catholic schools were different (two K-8s and a 9-12). All in the same suburban Midwest area. I have lived in DMV most of my adult life and am 50 now.

I have a handful of HS friends all from the public school I graduated from, mostly at the Facebook level now, but I would be happy to see them if we were in each other's town. Some of the K-8 Catholic schools kids ended up at my public HS, I was probably friendly with them in HS, but definitely not friends now. They were never a primary friend group after 8th grade.

My closest friends now are those I have made in the last 20y as we had things in common with work, neighborhood, kids' activities, etc. [/quote]

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