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I am the original poster - and no, not a snob, and was hoping to get answers that had nothing to do with snobery or money, bc it's not about that. It's about thinking that the education your kids will get (and what that affords in life - take that how you want) will be superior than what the public system offers, and the price attached to that is that you need to pay for it.  It is quite simple.  But not all people can handle that answer. [/quote]

OP I totally agree with you. however unless you want to start a heated discussion with your friends or neighbors I would not put it as bluntly as you have.

we just told a set of our very close friend(that have kids same age as ours) that DD is going to private 1st grade and we saw a bunch of eye brows go up and then we got peppered with a ton of questions. some friends only cared about how much it will cost (I guess trying to measure our financial abilities). others were more curious about  what our motivations were. Both my husband and I were very surprised that our friends reacted soo strong. we were not ready for that and probably gave to much info that further isolated us.  it clearly left an odd felling in our minds and probably in the minds of our friends. in retro thought, I wish we juts gave a single simple reason and did not turn it into a big discussion that probably had a bunch of follow up conversations afterwards.   
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