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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sad to say I think sometimes private school is just another country club to join. It doesn't make financial sense to join a country club either, but people do it because they seek status and reassurance.

Clearly, in cases where the public schools are underperforming, it's a different question, as you also say.

What is often hard for me to visualize is that for many people $35k a year just isn't all that much money, so for them it's not major stressful decision.

But imagine an analogy: there is a 100% free road that takes you from point A to point B in an hour. There is a parallel road that costs $1k a week (that's private school) and contains only Range Rovers and Lexuses and gets you from point A to point B in 45 minutes. You can't fault the OP for asking when it can look to many people like the differences are that small.

[b]Also btw, public schools do not have nearly as much standardized testing as people on here are claiming.[/b] And I wonder how many tests their children had to take for admission to those schools and how much they had to prep for them.[/quote]

PP, check out the news every now and then.  "Clearly" there is as much testing as people are claiming according to the latest study by a reputable organization that represents leaders of school districts around the country.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/study-says-standardized-testing-is-overwhelming-nations-public-schools/2015/10/24/8a22092c-79ae-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html[/quote]

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