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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys in decent districts like Whitman should know that a lot of your neighbors are assuming that...

1. Your kid, who may be reasonably bright, isn't bright enough to get into a magnet or to be at the top of a Whitman class, and you fear this will hurt his college prospects. I've seen many discussions in this forum about how private schools are often places where average kids can be nurtured to be (or look) above-average.

2. You're gunning for a highly selective college, and you think the chances are greater from private, either because the private will nurture your average kid, or because the private counselors have better Rolodexes.

I say this as a parent who has done both public and private schools. [/quote]

I am the PP who lives in the Whitman District.

I can assure you that we do not care at all what our neighbors think about our sending all three boys to private school. Our degree of concern about this is absolute zero. If they want to spend their time concocting reasons why we did what we did, let them.

A few of them seem disappointed that all the kids in the neighborhood didn't go to the same school. That disappointment is their problem, not ours.

Let them think what they want. Who cares?[/quote]

+1000. Seriously, man. I'm not gonna pick my kid's school to make the moms on Wisteria Lane happy.

I'm also totally comfortable with them assuming my kid is average. I actually feel like it's easier socially than having a gifted kid. [/quote]

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