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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Really good points, particularly about making the decision based on an assessment of child's needs instead of our aspirations.

Regarding the Pre-K teacher who made the recommendations: she pulled us aside and told us that he was very bright, far ahead of his peers, and he gets bored easily. According to her he isn't terribly disruptive, but he simply "tunes out". The example she gave initially: the class was doing number recognition and she couldn't get DS to focus. She then separated him from the group, provided him with some addition and subtraction exercises, counting by tens, and--ultimately multiplication of small numbers. She said she was shocked and has been delighted by his daily requests after that to "play math games."

That was early in Pre-K. Same kind of thing with reading. He got bored, would make some weird sounds, be "silly" when she was working on letter recognition. So she gave him books to read. He's read since he was three, but she noted that his ability to read chapter books from cover to cover was something we needed to be aware of when working out our next school. She said that because he tunes out so easily when bored, we might find he develops behavioral issues if he isnt in a situation where his learning is at least somewhat differentiated with like peers.

But yeah, he is a totally normal 5 year old socially and emotionally. I don't want to see him skip a grade and have trouble fitting in when he isnt as mature as his peers. So...I really think (based on late night discussions with DH and the really helpful feedback here) we are going to take advantage of the FA offer and give it a go. If it seems like overkill, we can always transfer in first or second.

It is incredible to me some of the PPs noted their families paid close to a million $$ for school before even accounting for college. That simply isnt something we could do. We are lowly civil servants so money will always be a consideration, but I am so afraid that kiddo will develop bad habits if he is in a large and busy class.  I know that learning to focus is important, but the idea of kiddo thriving in part thanks to smaller class sizes really resonates with me and DH.[/quote]

Well assuming tuition never increases and you receive the same financial aid each you'll be spending around 100k to educate your son. You'll probably feel this way about the other two children as well.  So 300k.  Invest that money and enjoy it in retirement or use for college tuition.

Look unless the public school is a bad school there isn't any reason to send your child to private.  Maybe there are more kids in a class but guess what...there are a lot of students in freshman college classes as well.  Your child won't even remember kindergarten.

Fwiw I switched from private to public.  In late elementary school.  My parents completely wasted their money. However my public school was a really great school and my parents supplemented my education with overseas travel and a lot of reading.  The private school did have some benefits such as better field trips and smaller classes.  But nothing that would make it worth making a significant financial sacrifice.

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